Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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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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There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
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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 highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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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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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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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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A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
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The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.
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For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
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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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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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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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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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Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
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Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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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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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.