Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
“The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.”
topics: Character
“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
topics: Charity
“God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.”
“God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.”
“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety - all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it.”
topics: Cheerfulness
“Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.”
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”
topics: Children
“Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.”
topics: Children
“The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.”
“There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants and neighbors.”
topics: Christianity
“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.”
“Tutto ciò che è quasi vero è in realtà completamente falso, ed è l'errore più pericoloso in cui si possa incorrere, perché più si va vicino alla verità e più probabilità ci sono di andare del tutto fuori strada.”
“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.