Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths – not until then can you know what love is.
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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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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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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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Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause.
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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.
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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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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
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Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.