Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
