Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
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The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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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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Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.
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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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Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
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The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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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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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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Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
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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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Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
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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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All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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Good nature is often a mere matter of health.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.