Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Soul

• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Thankful

• The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Coins, Riches

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.69

• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cities, Rivers, Shining

• When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power, and beauty, was the conception.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Mother, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Soul, Looks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Flower, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.127

• Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Long, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.42

• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspiration, Humor, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.109

• A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Land, Soul

• The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  War, Anger, Soul

• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Body, Shops

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Mind, Bells

  "Life Thoughts".

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hate, Hatred, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.273

• God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Soul, Desire, Doe

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Thinking, Men, Soul

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

• The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Night, Love Is, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

• God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He comes to us at once by the most natural course. We are in a transient state; our bodies are accidental, and God comes to us by that which is higher and truer--the intuitions of the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Men, Symbolism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.97

• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Home, Parent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.67

• There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were not the guardian angels so keen-sighted, they would altogether overlook them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Angel, Men, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.210

• Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Feelings, Soul

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Imagination, Heaven

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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