Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.
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The truest self-respect is not to think of self.
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Truthfulness is godliness.
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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 indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Businessmen are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.
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Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
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October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs.
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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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To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
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Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
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Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.
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All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.