Heaven Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Now comes the mystery! (last words)”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

— Henry Ward Beecher

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

— Henry Ward Beecher

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing…

— Henry Ward Beecher

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why…

— Henry Ward Beecher

We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent…

— Henry Ward Beecher

What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if…

— Henry Ward Beecher

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Some people think black is the color of heaven, and that the more they can make their faces look like midnight, the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive,…

— Henry Ward Beecher

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of…

— Henry Ward Beecher

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and…

— Henry Ward Beecher