Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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 Beecher
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No grief has a right to immortality. That ground belongs to joy, to hope, to faith.
- Henry Ward Beecher