Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page.
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Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
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Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
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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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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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There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
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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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All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
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Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!
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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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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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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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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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When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Love is more just than justice.
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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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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.