Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

God sees the secret springs of human action, and knows the hearts of all living.

Any human being has private thoughts.

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.

If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.

Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

...Nothing puzzles God

The whole concept of providence is that God knows everything about what we do.

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

Only God knows hearts, and so only He can say, in truth, “I know how you feel.”

We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.

The gods cannot misunderstand, man cannot explain.

In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one’s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one’s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That’s why life is difficult to live.

We were given the Scriptures to humble us into realizing that God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing.

Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.

Mind is a most delicate evidence. Not a soul has seen it yet.

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.

What is essential in the life of a man of my kind is what he thinks and how he thinks, and not what he does or suffers.

There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not something you make a decision about.

If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. But suppose god is outside and above the Time-line... You never supposed that your actions at this moment were any less free because God knows what you are doing. Well, He know your tomorrow's actions in just the same way--because He is already in tomorrow and can simply watch you. In a sense, He does not know your action till you have done it: but the moment at which you have done it is already 'NOW' for Him.

You live your life between your ears.