Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 19

• There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cities, Rivers, Shining

  9 Copy quote

• A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Character, Reputation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.396

  10 Copy quote

• Let every man come to God in his own way.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Tolerance, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.63

  9 Copy quote

• At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Song, Rocks

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

  7 Copy quote

• Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Men, Way

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

  7 Copy quote

• Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Contemplation, Ends

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

  7 Copy quote

• Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Color, Porcelain

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

  18 Copy quote

• There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Giving, Sorrow, Flavor

  7 Copy quote

• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Wisdom, Philosophy, War

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

  10 Copy quote

• Love is the world's river of life

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love Is, Rivers, World

  4 Copy quote

• There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Men, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.89

  4 Copy quote

• Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Running, Men

  4 Copy quote

• Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.410

  8 Copy quote

• Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Others Happiness, Selfishness, Expenses

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.243

  12 Copy quote

• To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, May, Nightmare

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.87

  6 Copy quote

• If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Two, Age

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Cobbett (1830). “Advice to Young Men”

  4 Copy quote

• If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jobs, Men, Done

  4 Copy quote

• Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strong, Men, Shackles

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

  7 Copy quote

• The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from the oven, and just before its natural heat has quite departed. But every hour afterward is a declension. And after it is one day old, it is thence-forward but the ghastly corpse of apple-pie.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Food, Apples, Pie

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.238

  5 Copy quote

• Good-humor makes all things tolerable

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Tolerance, Good Humor, All Things

  7 Copy quote

• See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Feelings, Action

  "Life Thoughts".

  7 Copy quote

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Flower, Garden

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

  27 Copy quote

• A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Men

  18 Copy quote

• The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Work, Men, Rich

  Henry Ward Beecher (1850). “Industry and idleness: with causes of dishonesty : to which are appended six warnings”, p.16

  7 Copy quote

• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memorable, Heart, History

  54 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