Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Fidelity

• Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hero, Tree, Saint

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We should live for the future, and yet should find our life in the fidelities of the present; the last is only the method of the first.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Life, Faith, Two

• Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hero, Saint, Needs

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

• For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dog, Horse, Animal

• Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Success, Running, Long

  Henry Ward Beecher (1893). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons from the Stenographic Reports by T.J. Ellinwood. September 1868 to September 1873”

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