Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDeath is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIntelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.
HENRY WARD BEECHERRepentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER