Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher