Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
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Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
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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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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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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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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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It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade.
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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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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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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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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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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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As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.