Quote

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Nightmare
May
Best
Men
Life
Covetous
Covetousness
Wrestle
Lets

More quotes by 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
There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The beginning is the promise of the end.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to their nature than romance and vague sadness. . . . But boys have hours of great sinking and sadness, when kindness and fondness are peculiarly needful to them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man that is afraid is never a man.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.
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
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it it belongs to human life the lower nature must always be denied when you are trying to rise to a higher sphere.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true then will your life be such.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
Henry Ward Beecher