Quotes By Henry Ward Beecher

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Love is the river of life in the world.

The dog is the god of frolic.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Now comes the mystery.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

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.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

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

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.