Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

Henry Ward Beecher


It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.Henry Ward Beecher



No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.Henry Ward Beecher


The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.Henry Ward Beecher



Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.Henry Ward Beecher



God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.Henry Ward Beecher



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.Henry Ward Beecher



The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.Henry Ward Beecher



Theology is a science of mind applied to God.Henry Ward Beecher



There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.Henry Ward Beecher


To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.Henry Ward Beecher



What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.Henry Ward Beecher



Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?Henry Ward Beecher



Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beecher



Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.Henry Ward Beecher



It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.Henry Ward Beecher



It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.Henry Ward Beecher



Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.Henry Ward Beecher



Now comes the mystery.Henry Ward Beecher



Suffering is part of the divine idea.Henry Ward Beecher



The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.Henry Ward Beecher



There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.Henry Ward Beecher



You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.Henry Ward Beecher



Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.Henry Ward Beecher



Books are not men and yet they stay alive.Henry Ward Beecher