Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine. — 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
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past. — 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
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Memory can glean, but can never renew. It brings us joys faint as is the perfume of the flowers, faded and dried,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — 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
While a man is stringing a harp, he tries the strings, not for music, but for construction. When it is finished it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but… — 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
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
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to us all ...not to impoverish, but to enrich us, as the plough enriches the field; to multiply our joy,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts… — 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
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
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to… — 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
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Affliction comes to the believer not to make him sad, but sober; not to make him sorry, but wise. Even as the… — 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
