Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
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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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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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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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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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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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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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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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The tree is but a huge boquet.
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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.