Quote

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Nothing
Agnosticism
Stuffed
Skin
Doctrine
Skins
Truth

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our life is in the loom it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world then only shall we see the pattern.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the more evidence they have of grace. But God, who made the sun and the flowers, never sent me to proclaim to you such a lie as that.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present the last is only the method of the first.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
Henry Ward Beecher