Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
+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
+1No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels,if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
- 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
+1None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.
- 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
+1Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
+1Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
- Henry Ward Beecher