Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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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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Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man's obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, but his chart and compass would be overboard!
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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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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
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A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.
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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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Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
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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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Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
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Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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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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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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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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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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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
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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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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.