Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Human life is God's outer church. Its needs and urgencies are priests and pastors.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Christ is risen! There is life, therefore, after death! His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection!
- Henry Ward Beecher
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
- Henry Ward Beecher