Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Eyes

• When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.54

• 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

• The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Flower, Eye, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.96, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

• Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that is a lens which opens reaches into the unknown, and reveals orbs which no telescope, however skilfully constructed, could do.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Stars, Eye, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.20

• If one should give me a dish of sand, and tell me there were particles of iron in it, I might look for them with my eyes, and search for them with my clumsy fingers, and be unable to detect them; but let me take a magnet and sweep through it, and how would it draw to itself the almost invisible particles by the mere power of attraction. The unthankful heart, like my finger in the sand, discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day, and as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some Heavenly blessings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Gratitude, Heart, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.66

• 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”

• The disciples found angels at the grave of Him they loved; and we should always find them too, but that our eyes are too full of tears for seeing.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Angel, Tears

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.104

• The hunger of the eye is not to be despised; and they are to be pitied who have starvation of the eye.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Sight, Hunger

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

• The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Hands, Tongue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.261

• A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfect!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Real, Coffee, Eye

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.52

• 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

• He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Surface, Organs

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

• He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Sight, May

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

• God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more. O love! O affliction! ye are the guides that show us the way through the great airy space where our loved ones walked; and, as hounds easily follow the scent before the dew be risen, so God teaches us, while yet our sorrow is wet, to follow on and find our dear ones in heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Land, Dear Ones

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.32

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