Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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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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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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It takes a man to make a devil.
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Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence. Henry Ward Beecher
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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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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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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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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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No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
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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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The beginning is the promise of the end.
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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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If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.
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Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.
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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?
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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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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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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.