Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
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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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The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
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No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own imperfections should teach us to be merciful.
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The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
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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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Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
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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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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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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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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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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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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.