Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Virtue

• 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

• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Children, Dwelling

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.151

• Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Pain, Helping, Virtue

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher”, p.372

• We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Virtue, Conditions

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 611, 1895.

• There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hens, Virtue, Great Men

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