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Of all earthly music, that which reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Troubles come to us like mire and filth; but, when mingled with the soil, they change to flower and fruit.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Many people keep their old sins warm while they go to try on virtue and see if they like it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
No man ever grows to a full man's estate without the ministration of suffering.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Sorrows bring us closer to God than joys.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There is but one resource for innocence among men or women, and that is an embargo upon all commerce of bad men.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
No man knows what he will do till the right temptation comes.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Love ... like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Sin is sweet in the mouth and bitter in digestion. It lies hard on the stomach.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Nowhere on the globe do men live so well as in America, or grumble so much.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Like the emery and sand with which we scour off rude surfaces, evil and trouble in this world are but instruments. And they are in the hands of God.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Suffering is as God's letter. Open it and read it. Many a one will find that he is titled, or that there is an inheritance laid up for him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The Church is not a gallery for the better exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Nothing in this world requires such long seasoning and ripening as new thoughts.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give forth their bounty.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A woman's pity often opens the door to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Our virtues are like crystals hidden in rocks. No man shall find them by any soft ways, but by the hammer and by fire.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There is an army of waiters in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it, else the hand would cut itself which sought to drive it home upon another. The worst lies, therefore, are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Life Thoughts
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