Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Soul

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Thankful

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

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  Soul, Coins, Riches

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

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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

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  Inspirational, War, Science

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

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• 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.

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  Cities, Rivers, Shining

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Mother, Soul

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

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

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  Book, Soul, Looks

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

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

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  Nature, Flower, Garden

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

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

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  Law, Long, Soul

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

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

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  Inspiration, Humor, Men

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

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

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  War, Land, Soul

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• 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.

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  War, Anger, Soul

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

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  Soul, Body, Shops

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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Art, Years

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

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• 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.

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  Soul, Mind, Bells

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

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  Hate, Hatred, Soul

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

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• 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.

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  God, Men, Symbolism

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

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• 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.

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  Children, Home, Parent

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

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• 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.

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  Angel, Men, Ideas

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

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• 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.

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  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

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• 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.

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  Self, Imagination, Heaven

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

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• Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

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  Soul, Rallying, Signals

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.303

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• There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.

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  Past, Soul, Infinite

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.169

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• 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.

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  Character, Heart, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.90

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• That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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  Eye, Men, Civilization

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

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