Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Truth

• 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

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Liars, Lying

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Errors, Dangerous

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Secret, Needed

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Men, Allies

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.229

• Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Fragments

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Pushing, Mets

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.211

• 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.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Reality, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.22

• Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor in season and out of season, under every discouragement... that requires a heroism which is transcendent.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Work, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.529

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