Quote

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Love
Worship
Never

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
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
Image
The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
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
Image
Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the burnings of the sun, and shade those that are lower by which the tall trees must protect the weak plants beneath them.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Living is death dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens on this side orphans, on that children.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness.... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry and where is there a more kingly flower?
Henry Ward Beecher