Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.
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No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
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The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
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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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No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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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.
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He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.
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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.
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There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
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Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is nothing else to bear; and touching that cross, find that instead of taking away our strength, it adds thereto. Give us faith for darkness, for trouble, for sorrow, for bereavement, for disappointment; give us a faith that will abide though the earth itself should pass away--a faith for living, a faith for dying.
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The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
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If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy, as the seed, by planting, is multiplied a thousand-fold.
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
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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.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.