Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

We are over 60 percent water by weight. We're just a big ball of... blob of water, with enough organic thickener added so we don't dribble away on the floor.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

I'm just drawn to hands.

The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.

I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn.

The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

It is not known why the Lord made the human body as he did, since one might suppose that omnipotence could have made it such as would not have shocked the nice people.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

The human body is something that I truly love, above all else.

We are God's productions, His compositions.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

God took pattern after a pine tree and built you noble.

All the inventions and devices ever constructed by the human hand or conceived by the human mind, no matter how delicate, how intricate and complicated, are simple, childish toys compared with that most marvelously wrought mechanism, the human body. Its parts are far more delicate, and their mutual adjustments infinitely more accurate, than are those of the most perfect chronometer ever made.

He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

He gave us eyes to see them, And lips that we might tell How great is God Almighty, Who has made all things well.

We who love Him beheld Him with these our eyes which He made to see; and we touched Him with these our hands which He taught to reach forth.

The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Being a singer, being a performer, you have tricks, somehow, to calm yourself when things feel a little overwhelming. I don't do breathing exercises, per se, but I definitely have to have a sort of internal word with myself before things got completely out of hand and I fainted on the floor.

The various parts of the body cannot be perceived as simple units and have no clear relationship to one another. In almost every detail the body is not the shape that art has led us to believe it should be.

Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.