Quote

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Architect
Optimism
Needed
Greatest
Hope

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
As flowers always wear their own colors and give forth their own fragrance every day alike, so should Christians maintain their character at all times and under all circumstances.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man without ambition is worse than dough that has no yeast in it to raise it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Rich men are to bear the infirmities of the poor. Wise men are to bear the mistakes of the ignorant. Strong men are to bear with the feeble. Cultured people are to bear with the rude and vulgar. If a rough and coarse man meets an ecstatically fine man, the man that is highest up is to be the servant of the man that is lowest down.
Henry Ward Beecher