Inspirational Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
“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
“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.