Henry Ward Beecher Quotes - Page 10

• Love is the river of life in this world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Rivers, World

  "Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

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• A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Flower, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.251

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• Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Enjoyment, Manly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1856). “Lectures to young men: on various important subjects”, p.221

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• Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Love Is, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1895). “Metaphors, Similes and Other Characteristic Sayings of Henry Ward Beecher”

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• Truthfulness is godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truthfulness, Godliness

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• I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Arms, I Can

  "Royal Truths".

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• Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Heart, Suggestions

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

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• Anxiety in human life is what squeaking and grinding are in machinery that is not oiled. In life, trust is the oil.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Funny, Oil, Anxiety

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.154

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• Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Blessed, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.313

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• Discover what you are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

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• The more sincere we are in our belief, as a rule, the less demonstrative we are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Belief, Sincere

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• Love is the wine of existence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Wine, Love Is

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

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• We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Mean, Progress

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Virtue, Conditions

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 611, 1895.

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• The Divine mind does not think for us, or inspite of us, but works in us to think, and to will, and to do.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Mind, Doe

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Roots, Tree, Tribes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hero, Tree, Saint

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Missing You, Heartbreak

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.184, Applewood Books

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• We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Suffering, Made, Has Beens

  Henry Ward Beecher, Irene H. Ovington (1901). “Comforting Thoughts: Spoken by Henry Ward Beecher in Sermons, Addresses, and Prayers”

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• Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Religious

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.437

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• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Mother, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memories, Home, House

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.47

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• Repentance is another name for aspiration.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Names

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• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Emotional, Long, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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