Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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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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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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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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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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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
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I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
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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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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
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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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Love is more just than justice.