You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and… — 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
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
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
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
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
When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm… — 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
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
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 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
God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong,… — 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
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — 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
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit. — 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
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested… — 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 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
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. — 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
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
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
