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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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Light, Soul, Feelings
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.91

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
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

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Hate, Hatred, Soul
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.273

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
Soul, Mind, Bells
"Life Thoughts".

The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it.

Henry Ward Beecher
Night, Love Is, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Land, Soul

Liberty is the soul's right to breathe.

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Soul, Midnight, Way
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.67

When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, And all too narrow for the broadening soul, Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, Fair, beautiful and whole!

Henry Ward Beecher
Beautiful, Giving, Soul

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Christian, Soul, God Love

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

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

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

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Blessing, Soul, Reason
Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Self, Effort, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.173

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

Henry Ward Beecher
Mean, Soul, Religion

You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

Henry Ward Beecher
Water, Heaven, Soul
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.12

Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin.

Henry Ward Beecher
Thinking, Men, Soul
henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.11

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
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

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.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Anger, Soul

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