Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
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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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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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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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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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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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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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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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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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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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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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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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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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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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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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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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The dog is the god of frolic.