Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 31

• All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dull, Plagiarism, Sermons

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• The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Passion, Yield, Evil

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.76

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• O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dull, May, Praying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.101

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• Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Work

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• There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Exercise, Air

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

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• Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Skins, Doctrine, Agnosticism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

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• Now comes the mystery.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Grieving, Mystery, Last Words

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• Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Generosity, Watches, Poverty

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• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Ideas, Suffering, Divine

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.191

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• Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, War, Age

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Business, War, Gambling

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• The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Age, Trouble

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.10

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• Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Imagination, Temptation

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• We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Future, Live In The Moment, Tomorrow

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• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Past, Roots, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.98

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• If a man meets with injustice, it is not required that he shall not be roused to meet it; but if he is angry after he has had time to think upon it, that is sinful. The flame is not wrong, but the coals are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, War, Anger

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

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• Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Independent, Law

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.54

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• There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Angel, Men

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• In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Greatness, Engineering, Achievement

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Flower, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flags, Errands, World

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• In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes us flat to the ground.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Crush, Morning, Night

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.43

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• The strong are God's natural protectors of the weak.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Strength, Strong, Weak

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.150

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• Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Laughing, Religion

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Plato, Greatness, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.87

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