Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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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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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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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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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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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
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We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual man, you can make a great deal more of him in his own line by education than without education, just as you can make a great deal more of a potato if you cultivate it than if you do not; but no cultivation in this world will ever make an apple out of a potato.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!
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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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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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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
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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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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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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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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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.