The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
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 BeecherMorality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
Henry Ward Beecher