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 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.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
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No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
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There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
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True obedience is true freedom.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
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There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
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When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
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