A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPeople may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLife would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen’s best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER