Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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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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We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.
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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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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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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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Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the plow enriches the field so that the seed is multiplied a thousandfold, so affliction should magnify our joy and increase our spiritual harvest.
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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 things that hurt us teach us.
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A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
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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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“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
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His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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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.
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Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be.
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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.