Henry Ward Beecher

“God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.”

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

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.”

“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.”

“Faith is spiritualized imagination.”