Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
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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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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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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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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 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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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
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The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
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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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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
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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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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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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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If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
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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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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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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!
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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.