Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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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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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.
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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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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
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There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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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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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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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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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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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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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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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Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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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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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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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."