Henry Ward Beecher Quotes on Christianity (9 Quotes)

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

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

Christ is risen There is life, therefore, after death His resurrection is the symbol and pledge of universal resurrection.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the school-house, established the Church, encircled the globe with her ships, and made her books and her papers to be as blades of grass and as leave of the Summer for number. But in the South, labor, a badge of shame, is the father of misery. The slave labors, but with no cheerit is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be quite content until it is time to raise and both flying and resting are but parts of one contentment. The very fruit of the gospel is aspiration. It is to the heart what spring is to the earth, making every root, and bud, and bough desire to be more. -

The test of Christian character should be that a man is a joy-bearing agent to the world.

If you want your neighbor to know what the Christ spirit will do for him, let him see what it has done for you.

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.