Henry Ward Beecher citáty

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„Ľudí by sme nemali posudzovať podľa toho, ako sa im darí, ale podľa toho, ako ďaleko zašli od bodu, kde začali.“

„Každý umelec ponorí štetec do svojej duše a namaľuje do obrazu svoju vlastnú povahu.“

„Neexistuje žiadne priateľstvo, žiadna láska, ako je láska rodiča k dieťaťu.“

„Smútok robí ľudí úprimnými.“

„Rozdiel medzi vytrvalosťou a tvrdohlavosťou je, že jedno pochádza zo silnej vôle a druhé zo silného nechcenia.“

„Niektorí ľudia sú ako pyramídy, ktoré sú veľmi široké tam, kde sa dotýkajú zeme, ale zúžia sa, keď sa dotýkajú oblohy.“

„Noviny sú učitelia jednoduchých ľudí.“

„Matkino srdce je učebňou dieťaťa.“

„Nikto nemôže povedať, či je bohatý alebo chudobný tým, že sa pozrie do svojej hlavnej účtovnej knihy. Bohatým robí človeka srdce. Je bohatý alebo chudobný podľa toho, čím je, nie podľa toho, čo má.“

„Bohatstvo bez zákona je nebezpečnejšie ako chudoba bez zákona.“

„Porážka je škola, v ktorej pravda vždy zosilnie.“

„Ak nejaký človek nemôže byť kresťanom na tom mieste kde je, nemôže byť kresťanom nikde.“

„Božia prozreteľnosť je na strane jasných hláv.“

„Do akej miery sme preniknutí humanistickým duchom sa pozná aj zo spôsobu, ako sa obliekame.“

„Filozofia jedného storočia je zdravým rozumom ďalšieho.“

„Na tomto svete nás robí bohatými nie to, čo si vezmeme, ale to, čoho sa vzdáme.“

„Nástroj je iba predĺžením ľudskej ruky a stroj je iba zložitý nástroj. A ten, kto vynájde nejaký stroj, zväčšuje moc človeka a blahobyt ľudstva.“

„Nie je dobré, ak sa niekto modlí smotanu a žije pozbierané mlieko.“

„Nikdy nepoznáme, čo je rodičovská láska, až vtedy, keď sa staneme rodičmi my sami.“

„Nikto nie je taký víťaz ako človek, ktorý premohol sám seba.“

„Pyšný človek je zriedka vďačný, pretože si nikdy nemyslí, že dostáva toľko, koľko si zaslúži.“

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.”

“Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.”

“The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.”

“A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.”

“The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”

“When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”

“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.”

“Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.”

“Genius is a steed too fiery for the plow or cart.”

“Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.”

“When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.”

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

“Live for the other life. Endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Work by faith; work by hope; work by love; work by courage; work by trust; work by the sweet side of your mind; and so be like Christ, until you dwell with Him.”

“Let it be understood that the end of our existence here is that we may be more God-like … and that we are placed here to grow strong and noble, and not merely to enjoy.”

“For four thousand years the strong had been rushing on in the road of privilege and power, seeking greatness. Christ stood in the path, and said, " Ye seek greatness. Ye are not even in the way to it. Ye are going up, but the way to greatness is down. Let him who would be great be the love-servant of all." Greatness consists in the facility and power of going down, and not in the facility of going up.”

“Everyman is full of music, but it is not everyman that knows how to bring it out.”

“There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.”

“It is not to come in any particular way, or with any particular experience, but to arise and come to your Father, and say unto Him, "Father I have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called Thy son; make me as one of Thy hired servants."”

“Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it only serves to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

“Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, — as a compliment from God.”

“Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.”

“Whoever lives a noble life for Christ and God — he is one of God's workmen, working on that building of which God is the supreme Architect.”

“And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.”

“May we feel after Thee; still calling out in the darkness, as children waking in the night call "Father," so may we call out for God; and, at times, even if we do not hear Thy voice, may there be the form of a hand resting upon us, and that shall be enough; for we shall take hold of it, though it be in the dark, and it shall guide us to the growing light; for the day shall come, and the release and triumph.”

“…no emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.”

“May we grow more and more like God and heaven, more gracious, helpful, and sweet-minded; and when at last Thou hast served Thyself by us, may we fall asleep in Jesus, and find it no sleep, but everlasting waking in Jesus.”

“The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion. So the immigrants of all races and nations become Americans, and it is a disgrace to our institutions and a shame to our policy to abuse them or drive them away.”

“It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.”