Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 13

• Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Humility, True Humility, Servility

  8 Copy quote

• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Leadership, Being Strong

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.33

  9 Copy quote

• Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Love Is, Personality

  Henry Ward Beecher (1880). “Golden Gleams: From Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Words and Works : Being a Choice Collection of Over 350 Extracts from the Latest Writings, Sermons, and Lectures of the Celebrated American Preacher and Author”

  7 Copy quote

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Power, Protection

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

  6 Copy quote

• Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Father, War

  11 Copy quote

• I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to have all the comforts and luxuries of civilization; but he who cares only for these things is worth no more than a butterfly, contented and thoughtless, upon a morning flower; and who ever thought of rearing a tombstone to a last summer's butterfly?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Morning, Tombstone

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

  7 Copy quote

• You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Water, Heaven, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.12

  4 Copy quote

• John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Heaven, Path

  7 Copy quote

• Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Humor, People

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

  7 Copy quote

• There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Coward, Public Opinion

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

  7 Copy quote

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Wisdom, Nature

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

  10 Copy quote

• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Earning It, Effectiveness

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.28

  6 Copy quote

• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfish, War, Forgiving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

  12 Copy quote

• A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Power, Men, Hands

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

  60 Copy quote

• Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sadness, Past, Glowing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star papers; or, Experiences of art and nature”, p.183

  4 Copy quote

• Before men we stand as opaque bee-hives. They can see the thoughts go in and out of us; but what work they do inside of a man they cannot tell. Before God we are as glass bee-hives, and all that our thoughts are doing within us he perfectly sees and understands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Glasses, Opaque

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

  4 Copy quote

• A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Hope, Helping Others

  59 Copy quote

• What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Garden, Apples, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.290

  6 Copy quote

• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mom, Mother, War

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Powerful, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.76

  10 Copy quote

• They hover as a cloud of witnesses above this Nation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memorial Day, American Veterans, Clouds

  9 Copy quote

• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Children, Silly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

  34 Copy quote

• A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Lawyer, Valuable

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

  10 Copy quote

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Pain, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.454

  20 Copy quote

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivation, War, Ambition

  67 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lyman Beecher

Catharine Beecher

Edward Everett Hale

Debby Applegate

Theodore Tilton

Julia Ward Howe

John Brown