Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Saints

• 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

• 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

• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Son, Thinking, Temptation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

• It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrisy, Saint, Meetings

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.350

• I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become a prominent saint. A mean man ought to be converted six or seven times, one right after the other, to give him a fair start and put him on an equality with a bold, wicked man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mean, Men, Giving

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