Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Henry Ward Beecher
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All true religion must stand on true morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher