Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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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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The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.
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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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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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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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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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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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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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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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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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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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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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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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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.