Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
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Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
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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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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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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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The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the best banks are the fertile banks of a rural stream; the more these are broken the better dividends they pay.
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It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what we do that makes us useful. It is not a few faint wishes, but a life long struggle, that makes us valiant.
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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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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
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Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!