Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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BirthDate
24 June, 1813
DeathDate
08 March, 1887
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