Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Belief is so valuable and living that it infuses with life everything it enters! It transforms the fleeting glimmer of transitory life into eternal life, dispelling the transience in it.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived.

We are all working for the immortality of the human consciousness.

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

I propose to build for eternity.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

The king never dies. Rex nunquam moritur.

I condemn the dust of which I am made, this dust that speaks to you now. It can be persecuted, it can be brought to death. But I challenge the world to take from me that part of me which will live through the centuries and survive in the skies

If you want to be immortal, do something useful in your lifetime.

Living, he made life beautiful. Dying, he made death divine

The only length of life that seems to satisfy the longings of the human heart is life everlasting.

Death is not just the end, it's the beginning.

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses?

The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.

public work brings a vicarious but assured sense of immortality. We may be poor, weak, timid, in debt to our landlady, bullied by our nieces, stiff in the joints, shortsighted and distressed; we shall perish, but the cause endures; the cause is great.

Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?