Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Purpose

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, War, School

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.239

• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Teaching, Men

• Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Criticism, Purpose, Flattery

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.383

• It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery creditor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Evil, Hot

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.112

• It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sea, Land, Atmosphere

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

• Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Heaven, Musician

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

• A dull axe never loves grindstones, but a keen workman does; and he puts his tool on them in order that it may be sharp. And men do not like grinding; but they are dull for the purposes which God designs to work out with them, and therefore He is grinding them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Order, Discipline

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.195

• It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Purpose, World, Very Good

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.20

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