Frases de Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Data de nascimento: 24. Junho 1813
Data de falecimento: 8. Março 1887
Henry Ward Beecher foi um pastor, editor e escritor estadunidense,talvez o mais influente porta-voz do protestantismo de seu tempo. Aos domingos, multidões de até 2.500 pessoas se reuniam na Igreja Congregacional de Plymouth, no Brooklin, em Nova York, para ouvir o poderoso orador falar não só sobre Deus, mas também sobre sua oposição à escravidão e seu apoio ao sufrágio feminino, à teoria evolucionista e ao livre comércio. Seu prestígio só cresceu em 1863 quando, em férias na Inglaterra, fez uma série de palestras sobre a Guerra Civil em Londres, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow e Edimburgo; essas apresentações tiveram extraordinário efeito sobre o público britânico, ganhando simpatia para a causa da União. Beecher era um homem emotivo e carismático - Sinclair Lewis escreveu sobre ele em 1927: "Ele era uma combinação de santo Agostinho, Barnum e John Barrymore." -, mas sua reputação foi manchada quando seu amigo Theodore Tilton o proscessou em 1874 sob acusação de ter cometido adultério com sua mulher. O sensacional julgamento Tilton terminou em 1875, sem que o júri chegasse a um veredicto. Apesar disso, o clérigo continuou sendo uma figura social eminente pelo resto de sua vida. Suas obras incluem Seven Lectures to Young Men , Eyes an Ears , The Life of Jesus, the Christ e Evolution an Religion .
"Quanto maior a dificuldade, tanto maior o mérito em superá-la." Henry Ward Breecher Wikipedia
Citações Henry Ward Beecher
„A força de um homem consiste em descobrir o caminho que Deus está trilhando, e trilhar esse caminho.“
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.
Life thoughts - Página 34 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=WZ49AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA34, Henry Ward Beecher - Alexander Stranan and Co., 1860, 15a. ed. - 369 páginas
„Um homem orgulhoso raramente é grato, porque tudo quanto recebe, ele crê que é merecido.“
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves
Life thoughts: gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher - Página 115 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=OZ8ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115, Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor - 1866 - 332 páginas
„Quanto maior a dificuldade, tanto maior o mérito em superá-la.“
Henry Ward Beecher citado em "Citações da Cultura Universal" - Página 329, Alberto J. G. Villamarín, Editora AGE Ltda, 2002, ISBN 8574970891, 9788574970899
Atribuídas
„Não é o trabalho que acaba com a pessoa, mas as preocupações.“
It is not work that kills men; it is worry.
Life thoughts - Página 50 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=WZ49AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA50, Henry Ward Beecher - Alexander Stranan and Co., 1860 - 369 páginas
„Só damos valor ao amor de nossos pais quando também somos pais.“
I think we never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
Royal truths - Página 167 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=jUsPJ4ObDcUC&pg=PA167, Henry Ward Beecher - Ticknor and Fields, 1866 - 324 páginas
„Uma casa sem livros é como um quarto sem janelas.“
A house without books is like a room without windows
Eyes and Ears - Página 155 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=DerWQUclOF4C&pg=PA155, Henry Ward Beecher - 1862
„The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.“
Fonte: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 28
„The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.“
Lectures to Young Men: On Various Important Subjects (1856) Lecture IV : Portrait Gallery
Miscellany
Contexto: The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.
„What is evidence to a man will depend upon those of his faculties whk at work upon the things which are presented as evidence.“
The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)
Contexto: Now, evidence to a man is that which convinces his mind. It varies with different men. An argument to a man who cannot reason is no evidence. Facts are no evidence to a man who cannot perceive them. A sentimental appeal is evidence to a man whose very nature moves by emotion, though it may not be to his neighbor.
So then, when men come to the investigation of truth, they are responsible, first, for research, for honesty therein, for being diligent, and for attempting to cleanse their minds from all bias of selfishness and pride. They are responsible for sincerity and faithfulness in the investigation of truth. And when they go beyond that to the use of their faculties, the combination of those faculties will determine very largely, not, perhaps, the generic nature of truth, but specific developments of it. And as long as the world stands there will be men who will hold that God is a God of infinite love and sympathy and. goodness with a residunm of justice; and there will be men who will believe that God is a God of justice with a residunm of love and sympathy and goodness; and each will follow the law of his own mind. As a magnet, drawn through a vessel containing sand and particles of iron, attracts the particles of iron but does not attract the sand; so the faculties of a man's mind appropriate certain facts and reject others. What is evidence to a man will depend upon those of his faculties whk at work upon the things which are presented as evidence.
„Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.“
Unjust Judgments (1874)
Miscellany
Contexto: Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
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