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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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
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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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Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
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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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A man that is afraid is never a man.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.