Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
Henry Ward BeecherGod puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
Henry Ward BeecherIf one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
Henry Ward Beecher