Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
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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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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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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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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.
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The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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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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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.