Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The tidal wave of God's providence is carrying liberty throughout the globe.
Henry Ward Beecher
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Globe
Globes
Carrying
Providence
Throughout
Wave
Liberty
Tidal
More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.
Henry Ward Beecher
Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
You may say, I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball. Providence won't. You must do it and if you do not, you are a dead man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Henry Ward Beecher
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
Henry Ward Beecher
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
Henry Ward Beecher
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
Henry Ward Beecher
A dull ax never loves grindstones.
Henry Ward Beecher
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the river of life in this world.
Henry Ward Beecher
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
Henry Ward Beecher
A man's character is the reality of himself his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him character resides in him, reputation in other people that is the substance, this is the shadow.
Henry Ward Beecher
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
Henry Ward Beecher