Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it. — 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
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Thou, Everlasting Strength, hast set Thyself forth to bear our burdens. May we bear Thy cross, and bearing that; find there is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some… — 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
