Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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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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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.