Quote

A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Giving
Vanity
Good
Charity
Charities
Men
Loves
Stewardship
Gives
Enjoys
Rather
Publicly
Enjoy
Benevolence
Fear
Publicity
Doe
Generosity

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
I never know how to worship until I know how to love.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A church debt is the devil's salary.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Love is the wine of existence.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The word of God tends to make large-minded noble-minded men.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Why is not a rat as good as a rabbit? Why should men eat shrimps and neglect cockroaches?
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked).
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
Henry Ward Beecher