To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher 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. Henry Ward Beecher motivation ambition war Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.' Henry Ward Beecher clothes sick cheer What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be! Henry Ward Beecher music flower rose Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort. Henry Ward Beecher size education culture The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. Henry Ward Beecher life-and-love taken people No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. Henry Ward Beecher rich-or-poor heart men It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Worry is rust upon the blade. Henry Ward Beecher stressed worry men There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week Henry Ward Beecher wipe sunday looks Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near victory as when you are defeated in a good cause. Henry Ward Beecher victory causes losing Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first. Henry Ward Beecher faith life two He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. Henry Ward Beecher causes may war Laugh at your friends, Henry Ward Beecher may friendship laughing Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks. Henry Ward Beecher genius war science All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. Henry Ward Beecher broken motivational men 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 mountain grief heart Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but to break ground, and blossom, and pass away. Thank God for spring flowers among men, as well as among the grasses of the field. Henry Ward Beecher flower spring children Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent. Henry Ward Beecher public-opinion privacy society Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition. Henry Ward Beecher gun military knowledge The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun. Henry Ward Beecher rising each-day weather To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them. Henry Ward Beecher ice sky love
