Lembit Beecher Quotes

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not. It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homewoard flight. When you see that deep, spiritual light in the eye,
when the little soul reveals itself in words sweeter and wiser than the ordinary words of children,
hope not to retain that child, for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortality looks out from its eyes. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

God is a being who gives everything but punishment in over measure. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. ~ Debbie Macomber

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him for the better discharge of the duties which devolve upon him in the ordinary affairs of life. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Humankind above all is lazy. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole system could not keep foothold for an hour. If there were no planters except such as that one,» said he, pointing with his finger to Legree, who stood with his back to them, «the whole thing would go down like a millstone. It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality.» ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most of the debts of Europe represent condensed drops of blood. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

If all females were not only well educated themselves but were prepared to communicate in an easy manner their stores of knowledge to others; if they not only knew how to regulate their own minds, tempers, and habits but how to effect improvements in those around them, the face of society would be speedily changed. ~ Catharine Beecher

The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves. ~ Catharine Beecher

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

It does sound like a science fiction story and I may sound like one of these guys who walks up and down with a sandwich board saying the end of the world is nigh, but the end is nigh ... ~ Lembit Opik

It takes longer for man to find out man than any other creature that is made. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world. Now, when any one speaks up, like a man, and says slavery is necessary to us, we can't get along without it, we should be beggared if we give it up, and, of course, we mean to hold on to it, - this is strong, clear, well-defined language; it has the respectability of truth to it; and, if we may judge by their practice, the majority of the world will bear us out in it. But when he begins to put on a long face, and snuffle, and quote Scripture, I incline to think he isn't much better than he should be. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

Yea, though the breath of disappointment should chill the sanguine heart, Speedily gloweth it again, warmed by the live embers of hope. ~ Henry Ward Beecher