“The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl vigilant in darkness and blind to light mousing for vermin and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.”
Henry Ward Beecher“No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."Henry Ward Beecher”
Henry Ward Beecher“Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned off so that in the silence we can hear the tragic truth of the Gospel, which is that the world where God is absent is a dark and echoing emptiness; and the comic truth of the Gospel, which is that it is into the depths of his absence that God makes himself present in such unlikely ways and to such unlikely people that old Sarah and Abraham and maybe when the time comes even Pilate and Job and Lear and Henry Ward Beecher and you and I laugh till the tears run down our cheeks. And finally let him preach this overwhelming of tragedy by comedy, of darkness by light, of the ordinary by the extraordinary, as the tale that is too good not to be true because to dismiss it as untrue is to dismiss along with it that catch of the breath, that beat and lifting of the heart near to or even accompanied by tears, which I believe is the deepest intuition of truth that we have.”
Frederick Buechner, Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale“Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher“One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher“We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”
Henry Ward Beecher“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”
Henry Ward Beecher“It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.”
Henry Ward Beecher“In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”
Henry Ward Beecher“Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.”
Henry Ward Beecher“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
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