Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Where human life needs most sympathy, where usually it is the most barren, there it is that Christ is more likely to be found than anywhere else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher