Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
-
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
-
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
-
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
-
Love is the wine of existence.
-
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
-
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.
-
Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
-
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.
-
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
-
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
-
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.
-
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
-
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.