Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Heaven

• Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Heaven, Charity

• The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Block, Character

• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Children, Silly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

• 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

  Garden, Apples, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.290

• Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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

• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiration, Humor, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.109

• Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Forever, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.99

• Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Land, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

• Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Heaven, May

• Today is a goblet day. The whole heavens have been mingled with exquisite skill to a delicious flavor, and the crystal cup put to every lip. Breathing is like ethereal drinking. It is a luxury simply to exist.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Drinking, Breathing, Skills

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.72

• 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

• God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Land, Dear Ones

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

• Many will say, "I can find God without the help of the Bible, or church, or minister." Very well. Do so if you can. The Ferry Company would feel no jealousy of a man who should prefer to swim to New York. Let him do so if he is able, and we will talk about it on the other shore; but probably trying to swim would be the thing that would bring him quickest to the boat. So God would have no jealousy of a man's going to heaven without the aid of the Bible, or church, or minister; but let him try to do so, and it will be the surest way to bring him back to them for assistance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Bible, New York, Men

  "Life Thoughts, Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by One of His Congregation". Book edited by Edna Dean Proctor, 1859.

• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Imagination, Heaven

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

• In a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Light, Oil

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal Truths”, p.66

• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why do we think that we are separated from them? We never half knew them, nor in this world could.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Thinking, Hands

• We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Believe, Thinking, If There Is A God

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.88

• John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Heaven, Path

• There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

• You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Water, Heaven, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.12

• When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Pride, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.73

• Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heaven, Tire, Restless

• Men who neglect Christ, and try to win heaven through moralities, are like sailors at sea in a storm, who pull, some at the bowsprit and some at the mainmast, but never touch the helm.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Winning, Men, Sea

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.13

• Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52

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