Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Victories are easy and cheap. The only victories worth anything are those achieved through hard work and dedication.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
- Henry Ward Beecher