Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Exercise

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, War, Get Well Soon

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

• God made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Exercise, Hands, Organization

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.37

• When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfish, Exercise, Luxury

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.39

• A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Religious, Exercise

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

• There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Exercise, Air

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

You May Also Like:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lyman Beecher

Catharine Beecher

Edward Everett Hale

Debby Applegate

Theodore Tilton

Julia Ward Howe