Way Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.

— Henry Ward Beecher

What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Let every man come to God in his own way.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

— Henry Ward Beecher

A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The clearest window that ever was fashioned if it is barred by spiders' webs, and hung over with carcasses of insects, so…

— Henry Ward Beecher

I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as…

— Henry Ward Beecher

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