Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About God

• We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Needs, Pilots

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.55

• God's glory is His goodness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Glory, Goodness

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

• God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Supervisors, Employers

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.83

• 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

  God, Men, Symbolism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

• God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Kindness, Mean

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

• God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Hands, His Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

• Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Heart, Giving

• A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Men, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.47

• We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Dream, Echoes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Lonely, Art

• God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.29

• The world is God's workshop for making men in.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Men, World

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

• God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Punishment, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.131

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