Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.
Henry Ward BeecherThe Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Henry Ward BeecherAll things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
Henry Ward BeecherThe beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the sudden ripeness and the full success, and he who is called in at the final moment deems this success his own. He is but the reaper and not the labourer. Other men sowed and tilled and he but enters into their labours.
Henry Ward Beecher