Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
-
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
-
A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.
-
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
-
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
-
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
-
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
-
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
-
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
-
The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.
-
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
-
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried, of the summer that is gone.
-
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
-
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
-
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
-
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
-
There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
-
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.
-
Experience is the mother of custom.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
-
I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
-
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.