Henry Ward Beecher
77 quotations
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way.
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Theology is a science of mind applied to God.
Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.