Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
+3Learning is not compulsory neither is survival.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don’t whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1No man is more cheated than a selfish man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1A library is but the soul’s burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Repentance is another name for aspiration.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1A church debt is the devil’s salary.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won’t.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Beecher
0Love is the river of life in the world.
- Henry Ward Beecher
0The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
- Henry Ward Beecher
0Success is full of promise till a man gets it; and then it is last year’s nest from which the birds have flown.
- Henry Ward Beecher
0Work is not the curse, but drudgery is.
- Henry Ward Beecher
