Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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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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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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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 conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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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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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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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.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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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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There is a temperate zone in the mind, between luxurious indolence and exacting work; and it is to this region, just between laziness and labor, that summer reading belongs.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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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.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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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 most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.