Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
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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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There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.
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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.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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.
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.
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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.