Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Struggle

Quotes about: Struggle

• I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Mom, Mother, Prayer

• It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Book, Men

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.1

• 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.

• It is no merit in the sorrowful that they weep, or to the oppressed and smothering that they gasp and struggle, not to me, that I must speak for the oppressed - who cannot speak for themselves.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Struggle, Merit, Speak

  On Uncle Tom's Cabin in a letter to Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman, January 20, 1853.

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