Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

  • The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.Upload to Facebook
    The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.Upload to Facebook
    The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light!  Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!Upload to Facebook
    Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher, reverand and social activist
  • Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.Upload to Facebook
    Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • Love is the wine of existence.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • Nothing is so sensitive as love-and the greater, the more sensitive. It cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed from out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
    ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • 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
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