Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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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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Tyrannies are overthrown by ideas. Armies are defeated by ideas. Nations, and Time itself, are overmatched by ideas.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field.
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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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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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.
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A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
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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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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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The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.