Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. “By their fruits ye shall know them.”

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes; and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

Happiness is not the end of life, character is.

A man may be outwardly successful all his life long, and die hollow and worthless as a puffball; and he may be externally defeated all his life long, and die in the royalty of a kingdom established within him. A man’s true estate of power and riches, is to be in himself; not in his […]