That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God asks no man whether he will accept life. This is not the choice. You must take it. The only questionis how. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The mere wit is only a human bauble. He is to life what bells are to horses-not expected to draw the load,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of… — 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
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed.… — 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
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
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from… — 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
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life! — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. — 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
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
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
Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we… — 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
