Henry Ward Beecher World Quotations

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Love is the river of life in the world.

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.

All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man.

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.

The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences.

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.

The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

The world is God's workshop for making men in.

Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the world, a forest tree is the most informal.

The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub.

There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills.

A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all of them.

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.

There is an army of waiters in this world.

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

The meanest thing in the world is the devil.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.

Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.

Love is the world's river of life

It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.

Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

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

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.