Religion Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

12 Religion quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Harriet Beecher Stowe’s take on religion may be compact, but each line carries the weight of her moral compass. This short collection serves as a thoughtful starting point for readers curious about her spiritual perspective.

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Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every…

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“«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.”

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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

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Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed…

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I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my…

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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.I would not attack the…

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These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow,…

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What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he…

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“One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned…

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“Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave…

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It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and…

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Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every…

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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there…

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I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,…

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People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

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Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

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Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers…

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God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

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If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

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The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

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Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from…

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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness,…

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No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

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The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

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We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful…

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It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

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