Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

Either all days are holy or none are.

Nature is all the body of God we mortals will ever see.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

How anyone cannot see that Nature is God is amazing to me: that they'd rather worship something that can only exist, really, in their own minds.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

Divinity is an emotion of being lifted out of yourself and being part of something much bigger than yourself that makes you go, 'Oh my God.' And that sense of awe? It's the second rule of science.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.

Hidden nature is secret God.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

I've always regarded nature as the clothing of God.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

The groves were God's first temples.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

My god is all gods in one. When I see a beautiful sunset, I worship the god of Nature; when I see a hidden action brought to light, I worship the god of Truth; when I see a bad man punished and a good man go free, I worship the god of Justice; when I see a penitent forgiven, I worship the god of Mercy.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

By 'God' I mean godliness; the whole existence is full of godliness. And when you will come to know, you will not see a god standing before you, you will see the trees as divine, the rocks as divine, the people as divine, the animals as divine. God is spread all over the place, from the pebble to the star, from the blade of grass to the sun - it is all divine.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Everything is touched by the holy when it is in the presence of death.

I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.