Quote

This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Residents
Pilgrim
Strangers
Magnificent
Miserable
Stranger
World
Pilgrims

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
Henry Ward Beecher