Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only

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How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only.

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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The grave itself is but a covered bridge, Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!

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He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

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I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust.

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The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

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Kind hearts are the gardens, Kind thoughts are the roots, Kind words are the flowers, Kind deeds are the fruits, Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds, Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.

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A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat.

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Love is a bodily shape; and Christian works are no more than animate faith and love, as flowers are the animate springtide.

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And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

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O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

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Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

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Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend.

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Nothing is or can be accidental with God.

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'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore.

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See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

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Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

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