Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
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There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
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Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.
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And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
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When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
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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.
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The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
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There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.
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The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
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He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
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Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented there.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
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Conceited men often seem a harmless kind of men, who, by an overweening self-respect, relieve others from the duty of respecting them at all.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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We only see in a lifetime a dozen faces marked with the peace of a contented spirit.
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Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.