Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. — 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
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor. — 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
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
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on,… — 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
It is the color which love wears, and cheerfulness, and joy--these three. It is the light in the window of the face… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side… — 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
