Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their way up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. Human nature has an element of great toughness in it.
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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
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Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
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The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
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People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.
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Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
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If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower; by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
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The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.
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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.