Henry Ward Beecher on faith
Henry Ward Beecher170 quotes“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”
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It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Intelligence increases mere physical ability one half. The use of the head abridges the labor of the hands.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
Henry Ward BeecherHenry Ward Beecher Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
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