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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes about Religion

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We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

Henry Ward Beecher
War, Adversity, Religion

A man has no more religion than he acts out in his life.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Religion
Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.56

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

Henry Ward Beecher
Blood, Religion, Pulse
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Henry Ward Beecher
Bible, Religious, Religion

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, Abiding, Morality

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
Men, Self, Religion
Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.258

Religion is using everything for God.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religion
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.114

All the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.

Henry Ward Beecher
Real, Sobriety, Religion
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.100

All true religion must stand on true morality.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, Morality, True Religion
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.

Henry Ward Beecher
Mean, Soul, Religion

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

Henry Ward Beecher
Spring, Laughing, Religion
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Henry Ward Beecher
Religion, Individual, Fellows
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

Religion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.

Henry Ward Beecher
Self, Religion, Denial
Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.124

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