Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Love

• We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Royal Truths, etc".

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  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.41

• There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Daughter, Children

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

• The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Positive, Summer

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.296

• I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Crush

• Love is the river of life in this world.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Rivers, World

  "Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings of The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher".

• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Flames

• What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Missing You, Heartbreak

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.184, Applewood Books

• Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ocean, Thinking

• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

• It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.111

• Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Sweet, Worry

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

• Love is the wine of existence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Wine, Love Is

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

• He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Weed, Flower

• It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Angel, Men

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

• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Ice, Sky

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

• Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Love Is, Ownership

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.83

• Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Song, Fun

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

• But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Perfect, Storm

  "Aids to Prayer".

• God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

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  Love, Oil, Grace

  Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.367

• Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Summer, Spring

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24

• Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Taken, Wine

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.47

• Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Summer, Flower

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.43

• Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Golden, Steps

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

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