Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Christianity

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Faith, Children, Silly

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished Writings”, p.309

• Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Jesus, Christianity, Form

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

• The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Enemy

• What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Soul, God Love

• Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

• Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Running, Men

• Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fruit, Christianity, Good Nature

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.410

• A Christianity which will not help those who are struggling from the bottom to the top of society, needs another Christ to die for it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Struggle, Needs, Helping

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.23

• Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Women, Race, World

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.71

• Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Flower, Odor

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

• There's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants and neighbours.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Angel, Men

• Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Home, Sometimes, Christianity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.41

• Christianity works while infidelity talks. She feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, visits and cheers the sick, and seeks the lost, while infidelity abuses her and babbles nonsense and profanity. 'By their fruits ye shall know them.'

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Clothes, Sick

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