Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Let every man come to God in his own way.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."
- Henry Ward Beecher
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
- Henry Ward Beecher