Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

Mirth is God's medicine.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.

God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.

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

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

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.

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Religion is using everything for God.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.