Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Imagination

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, War, Science

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• Faith is spiritualized imagination.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Imagination

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Yale Lectures on Preaching”, p.50

• The imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Civilization, Imagination

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.96

• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God meant it to be in the mental economy is not merely noble, but supereminent. It is the distinguishing element in all refinement. It is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith. The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Men, Civilization

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• A practical, matter-of-fact man is like a wagon without springs: every single pebble on the road jolts him; but a man with imagination has springs that break the jar and jolt.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Spring, Men, Imagination

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

• Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Animal, Imagination, Temptation

• The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Eye, Angel

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

• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God's self in the soul.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Self, Imagination, Heaven

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

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