Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort.
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As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
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The elect, those who will; the non-elect, those who won't.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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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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Love is more just than justice.
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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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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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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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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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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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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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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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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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Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law.
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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 meanest thing in the world is the devil.