Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Some people are proud of their humility.
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Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
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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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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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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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Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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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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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.
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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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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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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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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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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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The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.