Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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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.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
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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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Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
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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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It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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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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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.