Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
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Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
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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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Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
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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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One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
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It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
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Men can make an idol of the Bible.
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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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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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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
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All true religion must stand on true 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.
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A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.
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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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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.