Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
-
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
-
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
-
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
-
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.
-
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
-
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
-
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
-
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
-
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
-
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
-
Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
-
There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
-
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.
-
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
-
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
-
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.
-
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
-
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
-
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
-
A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
-
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
-
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
-
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.