Quotes about Understanding
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
— Henry Ward Beecher
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are but you must approach each man by the right door.
— Henry Ward Beecher
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.
— Leonard Ravenhill
One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed. We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed).
— Leonard Ravenhill