Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
good liar lie tells truths
Even a liar tells 100 truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
friendship patience truth
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.
truth liars lying
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.
truth work men
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.
truth men allies
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
truth fragments
Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.
truth errors dangerous
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
truth pushing mets
Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
school ideas truth-is
Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.
truth lying men
I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.
truth secret needed
Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.
truth reality giving
Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.
truthfulness godliness
Truthfulness is godliness.
compact himself man sells value
When a man sells 11 ounces for 12, he makes a compact with the devil, an sells himself for the value of an ounce.