beecher Quotes

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”

“The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.”

“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.”

“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”