Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.

There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.