Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

452. “There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

453. “A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

454. “People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

455. “Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

456. “To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

457. “Many of our troubles are God dragging us, and they would end if we would stand upon our feet and go whither He would have us go.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

458. “Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

459. “If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

460. “Precise knowledge is the only true knowledge, and he who does not teach exactly, does not teach at all.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

461. “None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

462. “The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

463. “Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

464. “When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

465. “Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

466. “Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

467. “Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

468. “Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!”

— Henry Ward Beecher

469. “In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

470. “God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

471. “Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

472. “Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

473. “There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

474. “His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

475. “Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for the divine thought that is behind it.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

476. “Experience is the mother of custom.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

477. “Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

478. “Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

479. “Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

480. “Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

481. “He who olny does not appreciate floral beauty is to be pitied like any other man who is born inperfect. It is a misfortune not unlike blindness.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

482. “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.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

483. “Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

484. “We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

485. “A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

486. “In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

487. “Some have supposed that the mosquito is of a devout turn, and never will partake of a meal without first saying grace. The devotions of some men are but a preface to blood-sucking.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

488. “The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

489. “Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

490. “The indolent mind is not empty, but full of vermin.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

491. “The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

492. “Though cares and sorrows e’er must come, Though heart be rent, I know that God will give me strength, When mine is spent.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

493. “Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

494. “A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed-it has educated a race of men that are men.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

495. “There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

496. “The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

497. “Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

498. “If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

499. “There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

500. “Each book has a secret history of ways and means.”

— Henry Ward Beecher