Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
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Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.
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The great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying thoughts. Thus living, though their footfalls are heard no more, their voices are louder than the thunder, and unceasing as the flow of tides or air.
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Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
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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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A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.
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Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.
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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of earnest men, the conflict of realities, invigorate, cleanse, and establish the truth.
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Each book has a secret history of ways and means.
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Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
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Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
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It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.