Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
“The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.”
topics: Anxiety
“I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.”
topics: Apathy
“The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
topics: Apathy
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!”
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
topics: Books
“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”
topics: Books
“Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”
“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”
“Biblia este harta lui Dumnezeu după care să te ghidezi, să te ferească de fundul mării, să îţi arate unde este portul şi cum ajungi la el fără să eşuezi pe stânci sau bancuri de nisip.”
topics: christian-life
“If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.”
“No emotion any more than a wave,can long retain its own individual form.”
“An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful before all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? the exterior is not persuasive.”
topics: oyster
“A man’s ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth — whether rich or poor.”
“On this side of the grave we are exiles; on that, citizens.”
“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of the voyage.”
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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.