Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher