Henry Ward Beecher

All words are pegs to hang ideas upon.

The one great poem of New England is her Sunday.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.

Christ, then, raised men from religion as a bondage to religion as a freedom.

A servant is one who receives orders, and is not admitted to conference. He does not know about his lord's affairs.

This is unquestionably a contrast between an enforced and a free religious condition. It is a transfer from a life compelled by fear, through conscience, to a life that is inspired and made spontaneous by love.

The truth is larger than any one man's thought of it. The truth of God usually has relations that stretch out in such a way that men may see it very differently, and all of them be true in spots, although they do not have the whole truth.

is it not possible for truth to be so large that ten men shall believe it differently, and yet each one of them so sectionally believe it, that they shall be all true though none of them has more than partial truth, and that all of them …

The Scriptures make the test of believing to lie in the life and in the disposition. They nowhere require men, as the condition of acceptance and salvation, to be technically and philosophically right on all points of belief

What is evidence to a man will depend upon those of his faculties whk at work upon the things which are presented as evidence.

And as long as the world stands there will be men who will hold that God is a God of infinite love and sympathy and. goodness with a residunm of justice; and there will be men who will believe that God is a God of justice with a residunm …

when men come to the investigation of truth, they are responsible, first, for research, for honesty therein, for being diligent, and for attempting to cleanse their minds from all bias of selfishness and pride. They are responsible for …

Evidence of justice and law will make but a small impression on such a man, while evidence of goodness will make a prodigious impression upon him.

a man's moral disposition will color his beliefs.

[L]ove is more just than justice.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

We expect old men to be conservative, but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.

Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart …

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of Truth set up and stuffed.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.

There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.

When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.