Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Glory

• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Being Strong, Loneliness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

• October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Autumn, Color

• That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Glory, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.283

• The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tree, Her Beauty, England

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.5

• The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ice, Sky

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

• October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Years, Opal, Months

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Fall, Autumn

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.110

• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

• 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

  Nature, Wind, Would Be

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.153

• The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own soul!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hands, Soul, Spheres

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Feet, Broken, Parent

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Hands, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.295

• Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use to you beyond this world. Nobody will have heard a word of your honors in the other life. Your glory, your shame, your ambitions, and all the treasures for which you push hard and sacrifice much will be like wreaths of smoke. For these things, which you mostly seek, and for which you spend your life only tarry with you while you are on this side of the flood.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ambition, Sacrifice, Honor

• God's glory is His goodness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Glory, Goodness

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Would Be, Looks

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