Henry Ward Beecher May Quotations

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

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.

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

O Lord God, we pray that we may be inspired to nobleness of life in the least things. May we dignify all our daily life. May we set such a sacredness upon every part of our life, that nothing shall be trivial, nothing unimportant, and nothing dull, in the daily round.

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

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.

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.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.