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 Copy Share Image
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only questionis how. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
