However heavy that saying is, every one of us shall give an account of himself before God--in it is the life of the race.
Henry Ward Beecher: “However heavy that saying is, every one of us shall give an account of himself before God--in it is the life of the…”
Editor's note · Context
This statement reflects Beecher's belief in personal accountability before God as a fundamental aspect of human existence.
Share
More from Henry Ward Beecher
Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.
The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.
But I think that God sent New-England to these shores as his own messenger of mercy to days and ages, that have yet far to come ere they are born!
If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.