Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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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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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 dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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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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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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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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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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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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Love is more just than justice.
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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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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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The things that hurt us teach us.
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To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.