Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROf all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThat is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness — or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDebt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChristianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHER