Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!
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Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
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Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
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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.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!
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Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
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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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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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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High above all he sits, sublimer than mountains, grander than storms, sweeter than blossoms and tender fruits, nobler than lords, truer than parents, more loving than lovers. His feet tread the lowest places of the earth; but his head is above all glory, and everywhere he is supreme.
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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 true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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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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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
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Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.