Next to ingratitude, the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.

Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Topics: Gratitude Quotes

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school...

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school...

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly...

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly...

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you...

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you...

Happiness is not the end of life, character is

Happiness is not the end of life, character is

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person...

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person...

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages

Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are...

Do not look back on happiness or dream of it in the future. You are...

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes...

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes...

A church debt is the devil's salary.

A church debt is the devil's salary.

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of...

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of...

Now comes the mystery.

Now comes the mystery.

The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with...

The real democratic idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with...

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to...

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to...

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet...

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet...

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in...

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in...

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down,...

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down,...