Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher

A woman's pity often opens the door to love.

Love without faith is as bad as faith without love.

None love to speak so much, when the mood of speaking comes, as they who are naturally taciturn.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God.

God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.

Nothing goes far which has not the wings of love to make it buoyant, so that it can fly.

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.

Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.

Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.

Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.

Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything.

Many yet are the secret truths of God which will be unfolded as they are needed.

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.

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.

Love is the wine of existence. When you have taken that, you have taken the most precious drop that there is in the cluster.

I never know how to worship until I know how to love.

Love is the wine of existence.

Love is more just than justice.