Quote

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Much
Gratitude
Deserves
Mind
Grateful
Seldom
Never
Deserve
Naturally
Men
Pride
Soil
Thinking
Gets
Thanks
Life
Proud
Humble
Slays
Grow
Thinks
Thankfulness
Grows
Humility
Thanksgiving

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Good-humor makes all things tolerable
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is it is when it is put to the test.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not the Gospel according to Matthew, or Mark, or Luke, or John it is the Gospel according to William it is the Gospel according to Mary it is the Gospel according to Henry and James it is the Gospel according to your name. You write your own Bible.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We under no circumstances know the appreciate of your parent till we develop into dad and mom ourselves.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
Henry Ward Beecher