truisms

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:40 am

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:41 am

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:43 am

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:45 am

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:47 am

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:48 am

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
Henry Ward Beecher

Ekaterina · Post by **Ekaterina** » Mon 29 January 2007 8:49 am

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