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Soul Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

47 Soul quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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Henry Ward Beecher paints the soul as a hungry traveler anchored deep beneath the surface. He points out that material wealth cannot satisfy it, and that fear and hope ring like bells in the mind. The quotes urge a renewal of belief that feeds the soul’s deeper cravings.

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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

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

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

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

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

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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

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“Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.”

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

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The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul.

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By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

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Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun.

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Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

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The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God's thought and hand, is our own…

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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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Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants…

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

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise--the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. . . . There are apartments in…

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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…

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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,…

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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong,…

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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,…

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Not thine the sorrow, but ours, sainted soul! Thou hast indeed entered into the promised land, while we are yet on the…

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Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts…

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It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul to rest in His bosom. How, when…

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There can be no barrenness in full summer. The very sand will yield something. Rocks will have mosses, and every rift will…

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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." I…

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A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the…

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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…

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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…

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

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Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

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Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

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

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What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one…

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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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Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from…

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When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm…

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Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

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Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

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In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

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The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

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THERE are joys which long to be ours.

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People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten…

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Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration.

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Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

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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…

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You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it…

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