Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand. Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!

It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

And I needed a rock. Something to hold onto, to stand on. Something solid. Because everything was going soft, turning into mush, into marsh, into fog. Fog closing in on all sides. I didn't know where I was at all.

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

I am like a brick.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

Because if you have a strong foundation like we have, then you can build or rebuild anything on it. But if you've got a weak foundation you can't build anything.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor.

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.