Henry Ward Beecher

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

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.

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.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

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

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

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

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.