Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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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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There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
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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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It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
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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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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
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Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be placed. It shows how much good men require of us.
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Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
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Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.
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There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.
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Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
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Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.
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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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All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life.
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Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort.
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I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
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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.
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As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.