Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Feelings

• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Emotional, Long, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

• If one asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him: It means all that the Constitution of our people, organizing for justice, for liberty, and for happiness, meant. Our flag carries American ideas, American history and American feelings. This American flag was the safeguard of liberty. It was an ordinance of liberty by the people, for the people. That it meant, that it means, and, by the blessing of God, that it shall mean to the end of time!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Blessing, Ideas

• See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Feelings, Action

  "Life Thoughts".

• Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Real, Men

  Henry Ward BEECHER (1865). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a collection of memorable passages from the discourses of H. W. Beecher. With a sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture-Room, by Augusta Moore. New edition, revised, and greatly enlarged [of the second series of “Life Thoughts”].”, p.67

• Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form. Our feelings must have expression, or they will be as clouds, which, till they descend in rain, will never bring up fruit or flowers. So it is with all the inward feelings; expression gives them development-thought is the blossom; language is the opening bud; action the fruit behind it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Rain, Writing

• We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Blessed, Character

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.4

• There is no liberty to men whose passions are stronger than their religious feelings; there is no liberty to men in whom ignorance predominates over knowledge; there is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Passion, Ignorance

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

• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Feelings, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

• Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Feelings, Bows, Sometimes

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

• There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many illusive deceits, as are practiced in every man's conscience in respect to his motives, thoughts, feelings, conduct, and character.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Men, Light

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.35

• Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited, and they put nothing forward, they are sometimes even dangerous to a man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.349

• Amid the discords of this life, it is blessed to think of heaven, where God draws after him an everlasting train of music; for all thoughts are harmonious and all feelings vocal, and so there is round about his feet eternal melody.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Thinking, Feet

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.16

• Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Long, Feelings, May

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

• Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Feelings, Relaxation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.270

• The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Light, Soul, Feelings

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

• I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Butterfly, Fighting, Pride

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.145

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