Henry Ward Beecher Quotes and its meanings

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

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

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

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

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

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

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

Faith is spiritualized imagination.

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

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

The dog is the god of frolic.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.

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

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Theology is a science of mind applied to God.

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

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!

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.