Repentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREveryone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
-
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
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 -
If 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 BEECHER -
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Love is the river of life in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHER






