Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.
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Though cares and sorrows e'er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.
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A bird in a cage is not half a bird.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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He who only does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born imperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.
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True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.
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We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.
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There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
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The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.
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There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
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Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
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No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
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The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
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A thoughtful mind, when it sees a Nation's flag, sees not the flag only, but the Nation itself; and whatever may be its symbols, its insignia, he reads chiefly in the flag the Government, the principles, the truths, the history which belongs to the Nation that sets it forth.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples.
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The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.