Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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!
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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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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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No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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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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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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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."
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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?