Top 500 Henry Ward Beecher Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

352. “There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

353. “Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

354. “There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put it around him like a collar, and fasten it there, so that as he grows and enlarges, he presses against it till he suffocates and dies.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

355. “Good nature is often a mere matter of health.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

356. “Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

357. “No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

358. “Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

359. “Newspapers are to the body politic what arteries are to the human body, their function being to carry blood and sustenance and repair to every part of the body.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

360. “If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

361. “To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

362. “At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

363. “Repentance is another name for aspiration.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

364. “A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

365. “Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

366. “As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man’s path without hailing him, and if he needs giving him supplies.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

367. “Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

368. “This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

369. “God’s providence is on the side of clear heads.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

370. “A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

371. “God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

372. “Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

373. “There is always work, and tools to work withal, for those, who will.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

374. “People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: “Lord, teach me compassion,” but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

375. “Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

376. “Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

377. “The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

378. “The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

379. “It’s not the work which kills people, it’s the worry. It’s not the revolution that destroys machinery it’s the friction.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

380. “Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

381. “The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

382. “It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

383. “Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

384. “Suffering is part of the divine idea.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

385. “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

386. “Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

387. “Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

388. “Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

389. “You may say, “I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder, ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball.” Providence won’t. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

390. “Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

391. “The most dangerous people are the ignorant.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

392. “There are materials enough in every man’s mind to make a hell there.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

393. “Going out into life – that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

394. “Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

395. “No cradle for an emperor’s child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

396. “Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

397. “There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

398. “You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

399. “You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

400. “There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.”

— Henry Ward Beecher