Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
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There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.
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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
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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.
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Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
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There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
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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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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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God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.
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I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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The blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
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That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
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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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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.