Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
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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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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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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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All true religion must stand on true morality.
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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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Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
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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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No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
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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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Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
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God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
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You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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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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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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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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The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.