Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Author Image

Henry Ward Beecher

Profession : Clergyman

Birth : June 24, 1813

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Henry Ward Beecher

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Henry Ward Beecher

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Henry Ward Beecher

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Henry Ward Beecher

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

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

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Henry Ward Beecher

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Henry Ward Beecher

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher