Quotes about Life
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the river of life in the world.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The greatest miracle that God can do today is to take an unholy man out of an unholy world and make him holy, then put him back into that unholy world and keep him holy in it.
— Leonard Ravenhill