Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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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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Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
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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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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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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
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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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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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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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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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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
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Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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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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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us
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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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If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
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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 judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.