Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Love
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But when we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future to see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come as to how we shall avert them if they ever do come, we lose our proper trustfulness in God. When we torment ourselves with imaginary dangers, or trials, or reverses, we have already parted with that perfect love which casteth out fear.
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We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.
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To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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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.
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Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it cannot spread itself in flower-clusters and wide-twining vines, so that the whole air is filled with the perfume thereof. But there is to be another summer for it yet. Care for the root now, and God will care for the top by and by.
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Love is the river of life in this world.
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God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.
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Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.
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It is a man dying with his harness on that angels love to escort upward.
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Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you nave gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths--not until then can you know what love is.
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Love is the wine of existence.
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Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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Love is more just than justice.
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Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.
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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.
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I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.
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He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.
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Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will have its wind-flower, and every crevice a leaf; while from the fertile soil will be reared a gorgeous troop of growths, that will carry their life in ten thousand forms, but all with praise to God. And so it is when the soul knows its summer. Love redeems its weakness, clothes its barrenness, enriches its poverty, and makes its very desert to bud and blossom as the rose.
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
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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.
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