It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBe a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
-
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER