Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher (120)

Birth:	24th June, 1813
Death:	8th March, 1887
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Clergyman, Social Reformer

About

Henry Ward Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. He was an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery. He graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and Lane Theological Seminary in 1837 before serving as a minister in Indianapolis and Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1847, he became the first pastor of the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York.

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