I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
