Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.
- Henry Ward Beecher
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It takes a man to make a devil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
- Henry Ward Beecher