Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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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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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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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
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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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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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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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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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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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Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
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The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
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There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.
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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.
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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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When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
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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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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
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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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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.