We cannot have right virtue without right conditions. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is. Henry Ward Beecher oceanlovethinking The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. Henry Ward Beecher summerpositivelove God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. Henry Ward Beecher successmenlife The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. Henry Ward Beecher broken-heartpracticewar For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes. Henry Ward Beecher horsedoganimal Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ. Henry Ward Beecher formchristianityjesus Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them. Henry Ward Beecher naturekindnessmorning The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success. Henry Ward Beecher successinspirationallife Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? Henry Ward Beecher inspirationalfunnybook All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. Henry Ward Beecher ordinarymenlife Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. Henry Ward Beecher naturerainadventure 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. Henry Ward Beecher tribesrootstree If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. Henry Ward Beecher ifschristianmen Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. Henry Ward Beecher charityinspirationalheaven Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry. Henry Ward Beecher never-forgetinspirationalwar I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher nameswritingmen Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life. Henry Ward Beecher very-goodpovertyhouse The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches. Henry Ward Beecher richescoinssoul No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form. Henry Ward Beecher emotionalfeelingslong A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good. Henry Ward Beecher angermenlife
