Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and… — 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
The deeper men go into life, the deeper is their conviction that this life is not all. It is an unfinished symphony.… — 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
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
