Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Rain

• Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Rain, Adventure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.49

• 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

• There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Running, Rain, Flower

• Truths are first clouds; then rain, then harvest and food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Food, Clouds

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

• Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Rain, Blow, Wind

  "Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times".

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