Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

It costs you something to do good!

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

It is royal to do good and be abused.

Each had done more good than forty men would or could have.

In charity there is no excess.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.