Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Though a man declares himself an atheist, it in no way alters his obligations.

Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.

Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between poverty and indolence.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Men of dissolute lives have little incentive to look forward to the hopes and glories of immortality. A due conception of these would be incompatible with such a life.

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.

It takes a man to make a devil.

Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose.

Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Life is full of amusement to an amusing man.