Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

A church debt is the devil's salary.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's...

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qua...

There is no such thing as white lies a lie is as black as a coalpit and twice as foul.

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the...

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going and going in that way t...

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and th...

the difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other...

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

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

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud ...

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size or it is not the door that providence means...

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds...

Man is at the bottom an animal midway a citizen and at the top divine. But the climate of this w...

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from t...

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but the thankful heart... will find in every hour so...

Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience...

Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like you...

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Now comes the mystery! (last words)

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

Fear is a kind of bell or gong which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approac...

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam o...

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

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with ...

The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track ... an inch between wrec...

There is no friendship no love like that of the parent for the child.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflec...

Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has f...

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

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by ...

Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however lo...

It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war it is excitement.

Pride slays thanksgiving ... A prideful man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as...

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down...

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts n...

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and ...

Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but...

The dog is the god of frolic.

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Happiness is not the end of life character is.

Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile some have a...

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on th...

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today do not let ...

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the ...

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is, that one often comes from a strong will, and t...

Clothes and manners do not make the man but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.

"I can forgive but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgivenes...

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle it is defeat that ...

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and ...

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means fo...

God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only ques...

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought feeling yearning or desire however lo...

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some hea...

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, ...

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a sta...

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, mor...

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occa...

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness o...

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a ...

No matter what looms ahead if you can eat today enjoy the sunlight today mix good cheer with frie...

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the othe...

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of f...

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs jolted by every pebble in the roa...

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purp...

To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study an...

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

‎Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse your...

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that ...

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.