Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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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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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.
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It takes a man to make a devil.
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
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Love is more just than justice.
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There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
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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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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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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.
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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
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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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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!