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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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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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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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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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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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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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.
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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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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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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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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.