Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.
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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 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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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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That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
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Let every man come to God in his own way.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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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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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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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 elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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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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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.