Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither… — 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
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks… — 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
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time… — 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
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The pie should be eaten "while it is yet florescent, white or creamy yellow, with the merest drip of candied juice along… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it… — 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
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
A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know… — 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
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of… — 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
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is often said it is no matter what a man believes if he is only sincere. This is true of all… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,… — 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
