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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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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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.
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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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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 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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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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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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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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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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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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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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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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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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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.