Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God never made anything else so beautiful as man.
- Henry Ward Beecher