Генри Уорд Бичер цитаты

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„Удачно женившийся человек получает крылья, неудачно — кандалы.“

„В этом мире богатыми нас делает не то, что мы получаем, а то, что мы отдаем.“

„Богатым человека делает его сердце. Богатство определяется не тем, что человек имеет, а тем, каков он есть.“

„Различие между упорством и упрямством состоит в том, что первое имеет своим источником сильное желание, а второе, наоборот, сильное нежелание.“

„Книги — окна, сквозь которые выглядывает душа.“

„Поддержать добрым словом человека, попавшего в беду, часто так же важно, как вовремя переключить стрелку на железнодорожном пути: всего один дюйм отделяет катастрофу от плавного и безопасного движения по жизни.“

„Даже самый скромный человек оказывает то или иное влияние на окружающих.“

„Как только люди могут говорить о равенстве полов! Они не равны. Молчаливая улыбка чувственной любящей женщины одолеет десяток мужчин.“

„Самая важная вещь при публичном выступлении — это человек.“

„Циник – это людская сова, бодрствующая в потемках и слепая на свету, охочая до падали и пренебрегающая благородной дичью.“

„Никакая земная музыка не может сравниться по сладости своей с биением любящего сердца.“

„Поражение — школа, из которой правда всегда выходит более сильной.“

„Мы до тех пор не сможем понять родительскую любовь, пока сами не станем родителями.“

„Чувство юмора — великая вещь. Идти по жизни без чувства юмора так же нелепо, как ехать в повозке без рессор.“

„Выгоды — на час, принципы — на века.“

„Закон ценен не потому что он закон, а потому что в нем заключена справедливость.“

„Скептицизм - бесплодный берег без гавани и маяков.“

„Эгоизм — отвратительный порок, которого никто не лишён и которого никто не желает простить другому.“

„Час напряжённой работы даёт больше, чем годы грёз.“

„Цветы — самые милые вещи, которые когда-либо создал Бог, но забыл вложить в них душу.“

„В будничных житейских делах трудолюбие способно делать все, на что способен гений, а кроме того, множество вещей, которые гений делать не умеет.“

„Газетные объявления содержат больше правды о том, что происходит в стране, чем газетные передовицы.“

„У цветов есть выражения лица… Некоторые, кажется, улыбаются, у других грустное выражение, иные задумчивы и робки.“

„Из всей земной музыки ближе всего к небесам — биение истинно любящего сердца.“

“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.”