The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor;… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Oh, ye infidel philosophers, teach me how to find joy in sorrow, strength in weakness, and light in darkest days; how to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But… — 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
