Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
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A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
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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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In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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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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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself.
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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
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Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.