Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
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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 worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
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People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.
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Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.
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As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
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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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Wherever you have seen God pass, mark that spot, and go and sit in that window again.
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Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.
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No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
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The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
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Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.
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A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty.
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Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
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Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
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Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or the cart.
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We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.