Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Singing

• What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would these be!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Music, Flower, Rose

  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”

• Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Memories, Home, House

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.47

• 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

• There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Prayer, Temptation, Singing

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.123

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