American clergyman (1813-1887)
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
When a man unites with the church, he should not come saying, "I am so holy that I think I must go in among the saints," but, "O brethren, I find I am so weak and wicked that I cannot stand alone; so, if you can help me, open the door and let me enter."
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
There are materials enough in every man's mind to make a hell there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains, as no artist could ever do!
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A man that is afraid is never a man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The dog was created especially for children. He is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
October is Nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life.... Every green thing loves to die in bright colors.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes. Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
God is like us to this extent, that whatever in us is good is like God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit