Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God does not refuse to make himself known to man. He only will not do it by the symbolism of matter. He… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When God thought of mother, He must have laughed with satisfaction, and framed it quickly - so rich, so deep, so divine,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
