Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

“What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.”

“I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.”

“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”

“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.”

“There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.”

“Suffering is part of the divine idea.”

“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.”

“Theology is a science of mind applied to God.”

“Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.”