Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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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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Let the GRATEFUL HEART sweep through the day that it may recognize in every hour some sweet blessing.
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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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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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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
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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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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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Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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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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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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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 can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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.