Henry Ward Beecher Time Quotations

The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.

A grindstone that had not grit in it, how long would it take to sharpen an ax? And affairs that had not grit in them, how long would they take to make a man?

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

There is not a time that you walk through the street, when if you employed your senses, you would not learn something worthwhile.