Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
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There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
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Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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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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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.