Henry Ward Beecher

Some regard religion as a sort of divine aura, which descends upon a man and encircles him, as silvery mists enwreath autumnal mountain tops. There is a sense in which this is true. No one

Holiness is beauty. There is no beauty like that of a pure character. The grandest sight on this earth is not the march of the all-conquering storm whose cloudy battalions go rushing through the sounding

To a Christian who has lived all his lifelong in bondage unto fear, not daring to believe himself a child of God, how sweet will be the awakening in heaven. With great dread and trembling

The popular impression is that grace is designed to change men from nature. No. They are sinful simply because they have deviated from their true nature, or fallen short of it. Grace is given to

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. A man may cut grafts from his tree till the tree itself has no top left with which to bear fruit In

Let no man, therefore, when he says, “Our Father which art in Heaven,” suppose that he addresses a God without any color of strength, of equity, or of penalty. He is a God who loves

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend of his faults. If you are angry with a man, or hate him, it is not hard to go to him and

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world—a kind of hedge-hog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and

May all of us have that faith in the Lord Jesus Christ which availeth, that faith which worketh by love, and so, though we have begun in the egg on earth, yet, through God’s brooding,

Let us build for eternity. A ship, however pretty she may be, is not good for anything unless she can battle with the deep. It makes no difference how splendidly you build so far as