Quotes from beecher henry ward vi

Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

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

Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

God builds for every sinner, if he will but come back, a highway of golden promises from the depths of degradation and sin clear up to the Father's house.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Men who act under dishonest passions are like men riding fierce horses: they cannot stop when they will, and they ride to ruin.

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.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

There is no servant like God. No other being so humbles himself, and so bows down under weakness, and so lifts up with his strength, as God in the plenary service of Love.

We need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.

A law is valuable, not because it is a law, but because there is right in it.

If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterward makes him a manager of life.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.