Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Ward Beecher

Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.

Henry Ward Beecher

Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the march. To us remain the rocking of the deep, the storm upon the land, days of duty and nights of watching; but thou are sphered high above all darkness and fear, beyond all sorrow and weariness. Rest, oh, weary heart!

Henry Ward Beecher

The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.

Henry Ward Beecher

Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt to get below the concert-pitch; and we take heaven to tune our hearts by.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now.

Henry Ward Beecher

No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Henry Ward Beecher

Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

There is not a single heart but has its moments of longing.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Henry Ward Beecher

There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.

Henry James

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

Henry Cisneros

The hurricane complicates things in that what would have been purely a business decision becomes a decision of the heart.

Henry Cloud

Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls.

Henry Cloud

When we can't hold back, or set boundaries, on what comes from our lips, our words are in charge-not us. But we are still responsible for those words. Our words do not come from somewhere outside of us, as if we were a ventriloquist's dummy. They are the product of our hearts. Our saying, "I didn't mean that," is probably better translated, "I didn't want you to know I thought that about you." We need to take responsibility for our words. "But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken" (Matt. 12:36).

Henry Cloud

The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will.

Henry Fielding

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood-- Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good. Oh! the roast beef of England. And Old England's roast beef.

Henry Fielding

There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

Henry Fielding

A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

Henry Fielding

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

Henry Fielding

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

Helene Cixous

in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked

Johann Kaspar Lavater

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly; telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I do not now begin,--I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.