Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
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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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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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May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.
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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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Men strengthen each other in their faults. Those who are alike associate together, repeat the things which all believe, defend and stimulate their common faults of disposition, and each one receives from the others a reflection of his own egotism.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony. A day may round out an insect's life, and a bird or a beast needs no tomorrow. Not so with him who knows that he is related to God and has felt the power of an endless life.
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A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.