Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
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If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant, what Bunker Hill meant; it means the whole glorious Revolutionary War, which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny, to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known - the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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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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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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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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The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
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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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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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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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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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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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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
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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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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.