Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
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The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
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Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
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There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
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Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?
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Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
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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 soul!
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Beauty may be said to be God’s trademark in creation.
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