To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
Henry Ward BeecherThe Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward BeecherA man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Henry Ward BeecherIf God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
Henry Ward Beecher