Quotes from 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 fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.
- Henry Ward Beecher