Henry Ward Beecher Love Quotations

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

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.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

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.

Love is the river of life in the world.

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents.

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.

Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

We should so live and labor in our times that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This expresses the true spirit in the love of mankind.

Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is.

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.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

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.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day.

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.

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.

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

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.

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

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

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.

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

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

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Love is the world's river of life

Love is not a possession but a growth. The heart is a lamp with just oil enough to burn for an hour, and if there be no oil to put in again its light will go out. God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Love is more just than justice.

To love I must have something I can put my arms around.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.

A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

God's grace is the oil that fills the lamp of love.

Love is ownership. We own whom we love. The universe is God's because He loves.

What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

Love is the wine of existence.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

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.

Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it.

What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.