Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

Patience is God's nature.

I do believe that Muslims and Christians and Jews pray to the same God. And yet they understand who God is in significantly different ways.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found a lot of comfort and joy and peace as a child hearing the Bible.

Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend.

I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.

The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ's atoning sacrifice for humanity's sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth's age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth's age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.

We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.

While love is one of God's attributes, it's not his only attribute. God is also holy and just.

For you all think God is one who rewards good and punishes evil, but I say to you that God is one who loves you and has compassion for everyone. You just have to pray to Him and believe in Him. He will always be your guiding light.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God.

Certainly it does make the greatest possible difference what we think about God; the knowledge of God is the very basis of religion.