The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
Henry Ward BeecherInterest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward BeecherAs the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
Henry Ward BeecherThinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
Henry Ward Beecher