Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

• Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Love is the river of life in the world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• 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

• It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• I don’t like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

  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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