Henry Ward Beecher quotes - page 14

Henry Ward Beecher was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, famous for his support of abolition. His sermons promoted progressive causes such as the abolition of slavery, temperance, and women's suffrage. He became one of the most influential public figures of his time in 19th-century America. Here are 333 of his quotes:

Happiness is not the end in life character is.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

Henry Ward Beecher

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.

Henry Ward Beecher

Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which Christ knows, and I do not; but I am following after. I am pressing up toward that thought that Christ has of what I am and ought to be; and I am determined that I will apprehend it as Christ Himself does. Not that I have it; but I will strive for it. My manhood is in the future. My life lies beyond the present.

Henry Ward Beecher