Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Benevolence

• A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love Is, Men, Vanity

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

• True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It promotes both beauty in the man who possesses it, and happiness in those who are about him. It is a religious duty, and should be a part of religious training.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Kindness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

• Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

• Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence. ... No man ever manages a legitimate business in this life without doing indirectly far more for other men than he is trying to do for himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Science, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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