Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (306 Quotes)

Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.

Nothing marks the change from the city to the country so much as the absence of grinding noises. The country is never silent. But its sounds are separate, distinct, and as it were, articulate.

Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days how to bear buffeting and scorn how to welcome death, and to pass through it into the sphere of life, and this not for me only, but for

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

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.

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!

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met with a counter-truth.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms a

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men.

It is now work that kills men it is worry. Worry is the rust upon the blade.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.

It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

If theres a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Beauty is God's trademark in creation.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas At noon, we stoop and bend beneath it And at night, it crushes us flat to the ground

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

Christ is risen There is life, therefore, after death His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection.

Love is the river of life in the world.

. . . commerce dies the moment, and is sick in the degree in which men cannot trust each other.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Rain whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart they are meant to be borne they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Fear is a kind of bell ... it is the soul's signal for rallying.

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.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give his mind every day to a consideration of them. They belong to human life. They are inevitable. Brooding only gives them strength.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.