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
A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. — 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 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
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 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
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he… — 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
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in… — 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
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — 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
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
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
Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give… — 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
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
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
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — 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