Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
- Henry Ward Beecher
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
- Henry Ward Beecher
You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
- Henry Ward Beecher