Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.
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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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Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
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A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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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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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.