Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Christianity
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Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
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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.'
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Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity.
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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.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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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.
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Good-nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
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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.
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Christianity is simply the ideal form of manhood represented to us by Jesus Christ.
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What could make me love my fellow Christian better than to see that God loves us all as we were all one soul?
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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.
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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Christians should be like a flower store: the odor of sanctity should betray them wherever they are.
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