Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Practice, Silence, Grace

• A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Christian Church has a heavy account to answer. Not by combining together, to protest injustice and cruelty, and making a common capital of sin, is this Union to be saved-but by repentance, justice and mercy; for, not surer is the eternal law by which the millstone sinks in the ocean, than that stronger law, by which injustice and cruelty shall bring on nations the wrath of Almighty God.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  God, Christian, Ocean

  "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Final lines, www.gutenberg.org. 1852.

• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Prayer, Giving Up, Mean

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

• How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Christian, Struggle, Effort

  "The Cathedral". The Atlantic Monthly, 1846.

• Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Grace, Lines, Boundaries

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.240

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