Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 25

• Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Communication, Law

  Beecher, Henry Ward (1882). “Plymouth Pulpit: Semi-monthly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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• Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret as an old friar would be without his hair girdle. They are commanded to cast their cares upon the Lord, but even when they attempt it, they do not fail to catch them up again, and think it meritorious to walk burdened.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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• When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Pride, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

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• Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love Is, Reason

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.117

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• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Children, Dying

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 “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

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• Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessing, Soul, Reason

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

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• Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Men, Amusement

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

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• Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Reading, Company, Immorality

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

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• Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Effort, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.173

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• Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lighthouse, Barren, Coast

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• It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face by which the heart signifies to father, husband, or friend that it is at home and waiting.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Husband, Father, Home

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• A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Land, Soul

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• Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Ideas, Theology

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.53

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• Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Plants Growing, Tree, Shade

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.150

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• 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".

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• There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religion, Abiding, Morality

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• God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Hands, His Love

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.90

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• We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  White, Charity, May

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• There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Longing, Moments

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• When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, States, Matrimony

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

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• A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Prayer, Missing

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

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• God's providence is on the side of clear heads.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Clear Head, Sides

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.104

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• You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrite, Play, Spirit

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• A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, World, Principles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.34

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• Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52

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