Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
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There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
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Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
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That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.
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May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.
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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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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
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But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
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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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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
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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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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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As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher.
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There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read, and they find nitre and charcoal and sulphur for powder. They read, and they find cannon. They read, and they make portholes and embrasures. And if a man does not believe as they do, they look upon him as an enemy, and let fly the Bible at him to demolish him. So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
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God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
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God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
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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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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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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.
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Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
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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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Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
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The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.
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Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.