Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure.

God is the one great employer, thinker, planner, supervisor.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

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

The worst thing in this world next to anarchy is government.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another's good, and bearing one another's burdens.

Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.

I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.

Good nature is often a mere matter of health.

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

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.