Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
“Flowers may beckon towards us, but they speak toward heaven and God.”
“The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too.”
“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.”
topics: Humorous
“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”
topics: Humorous
“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.”
topics: Humorous
“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”
“You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
topics: Hypocrisy
“The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.”
topics: Joy
“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”
“God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.”
topics: Life
“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.”
“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.”
topics: Life
“Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.”
“Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a men were obliged to run down all the innuendos, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.”
topics: Life
“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”
topics: Love
“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
“There is no such thing as white lies; a lie is as black as a coalpit, and twice as foul.”
topics: Lying
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Henry Ward Beecher was an American preacher and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut. He was the eighth child of Lyman and Roxana Foote Beecher, and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Reared in a Puritan atmosphere, he has graphically described the mystical experience which, coming to him in his early youth, changed his whole conception of theology and determined his choice of the ministry.
It was in the pulpit that Beecher was seen at his best. His mastery of the English tongue, his dramatic power, his instinctive art of impersonation, which had become a second nature, his vivid imagination, his breadth of intellectual view, his quaint humor alternating with genuine pathos, and above all his simple and singularly unaffected devotional nature, made him as a preacher without a peer in his own time and country.
He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.