The quotations of

Henry Ward Beecher

American clergyman and activist

1813–1887

15 quotes, most often on Religion, God and Love.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
- Love
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
- Happiness
The unthankful heart… discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
- Thanksgiving
I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
- Love
- Religion
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- Philosophy
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
- Success
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit (1887)
- Christianity
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.
Life Thoughts (1858), p. 190
- Advice
- Anger
It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.
Life Thoughts (1858), p. 64
- Prayer
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Life Thoughts (1858), p. 234
- God
- Nature
When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.
Life Thoughts (1858), p. 54
- Laws
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.
Life Thoughts (1858), p. 22
- Religion
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year’s nest from which the bird has flown.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 567
- Success
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.
Life Thoughts (1858), p. 61
- Comedy
- Religion
Difficulties are God’s errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God’s confidence, — as a compliment from God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 107
- God

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