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There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.

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
Mother, Heaven, Slave
HENRY WARD BEECHER (1863). “FREEDOM AND WAR”, p.418

Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.

Henry Ward Beecher
Clouds, Heaven, Sorrow
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.92

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher
Inspirational, Heaven, Charity

Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Land, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.57

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Forever, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.99

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

Henry Ward Beecher
Light, Heaven, May
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Henry Ward Beecher, p. 273, 1895.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Flower, Heaven, May

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Henry Ward Beecher
Morning, Sleep, Heaven
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven, Tire, Restless

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heart, Heaven, Musician
Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Familiar Talks on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.262

All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

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

John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Heaven, Path

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

Henry Ward Beecher
Water, Heaven, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.12

There is a great deal more correctness of thought respecting manhood in bodily things than in moral things. For men's ideas of manhood shape themselves as the tower and spire of cathedrals do, that stand broad at the bottom, but grow tapering as they rise, and end, far up, in the finest lines, and in an evanishing point. Where they touch the ground they are most, and where they reach to the heaven they are least.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Ideas, Heaven
"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 404, 1895.

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

Henry Ward Beecher
Heaven, Satisfaction, Stones

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