Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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 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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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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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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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
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It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
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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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“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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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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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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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Repentance is another name for aspiration.
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There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
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The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.