Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Mothers

• The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mom, Mother, War

• The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

  Henry Ward Beecher (1887). “Beecher : Christian Philosopher, Pulpit Orator, Patriot and Philantropist: A Volume of Representative Selections from the Sermons, Lectures, Prayers, and Letters of Henry Ward Beecher”

• 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”

• A mother has, perhaps, the hardest earthly lot; and yet no mother worthy of the name ever gave herself thoroughly for her child who did not feel that, after all, she reaped what she had sown.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Names

  Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.363

• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, War, Being A Mom

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

• A babe is a mother's anchor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Baby, Anchors

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

• God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Mother, War

• A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Different, Creation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.115

• A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Prayer, Missing

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

• It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror, hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Trust, Mother, Children

• Experience is the mother of custom.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Customs

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

• We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Mother, Memories

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 341, 1895.

• Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I found the following quote by Goethe that can serve as a commentary on these words. "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Father

• That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Years

• There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Heaven, Slave

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.418

• If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he would walk upon a beam of light, and shine in glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Children, Live Life

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.72

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