Henry Ward Beecher Quotes about Death

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Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Christian, Morning

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Science, Tree

Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

We have the promises of God as thick as daisies in summer meadows, that death, which men most fear, shall be to us the most blessed of experiences, if we trust in him. Death is unclasping; joy, breaking out in the desert; the heart, come to its blossoming time! Do we call it dying when the bud bursts into flower?

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Summer, Flower

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.37

Death? Translated into the heavenly tongue, that word means life!

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Mean, Tongue

Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.213, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Ends, Impulse

Henry Ward Beecher, William Cobbett (1830). “Advice to Young Men”

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

Death, Children, Dying

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

So we fall asleep in Jesus. We have played long enough at the games of life, and at last we feel the approach of death. We are tired out, and we lay our heads back on the bosom of Christ, and quietly fall asleep.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Jesus, Fall

Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.202

Going out into life--that is dying. Christ is the door out of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Doors, Dying

Henry Ward Beecher (1872). “One Thousand Gems”, p.363

Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call it death), at midnight, will pass by, and will call us by name, and will say, "I have a message for you from home; God wants you; heaven waits for you.

Henry Ward Beecher

Death, Home, Men

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.52