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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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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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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Think of a man in a chronic state of anger!
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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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Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
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Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
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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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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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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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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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A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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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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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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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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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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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.