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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Golden, Steps

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Wings, Wings Of Love

Henry Ward Beecher (1870). “Lecture-room Talks: A Series of Familiar Discourses on Themes of General Christian Experience”, p.3

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Medicine, Evil

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Winning, Men

Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to sharp lightning. As some of them are susceptible only of melody, so some hearts can sing but one song of love, while others will fun in a full choral harmony.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Song, Fun

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.113

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Love, Summer, Spring

Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.24