Henry Ward Beecher
American preacher, reformer and writer, 1813-1887
101 quotes.
Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
- There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants, and neighbors.
- To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel.
- Troubles are God's love-letters, written in dark ink.
- Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. God Almighty casts a man down when he wants to chisel him, and the chiseling is always to make him something finer and better than before.
- Troubles are often the tools by whioh God fashions us for better things.
- Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvest and food.
- Victories that are cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
- Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.
- We are always in the forge, or on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
- We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is the only method of the first.
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- What genius beholds with a flash of the eye, industry gains by a succession of blows. Men see the result, and care not for the process.
- When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done; he is dead; dead in the trespasses and sins of blear-eyed vanity.
- When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
- When God measures men in the next world, he will not put the tape about their head, he will put it about their heart.
- Work as long as there is work and you have strength to do it; and count it a blessing, every day, that God gives you something to do.
- You can not succeed in life by spasmodic jerks. You can not win confidence, nor earn friendship, nor gain influence, nor attain skill, nor reach position, by violent snatches.
- You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
- We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom; and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. That is what we mean by progress.