Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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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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While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it shall be played for melodies. God is fashioning the human heart for future joy. He only sounds a string here and there to see how far His work has progressed.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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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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Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
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He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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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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It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature.
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God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.