Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Nothing should so occupy the mind of the Christian than discovering God each day.

Whatever God is urging you to clear away cannot begin to be compared to what He ultimately wants to bring you.

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!

A church in the land without the Spirit is rather a curse than a blessing. If you have not the Spirit of God, Christian worker, remember that you stand in somebody else's way; you are a fruitless tree standing where a fruitful tree might grow.

Follow Christ in the denial of all the wills of self, and then all is put away that separates you from God; the heaven born new creature will come to life in you, which alone knows and enjoys the things of God, and has his daily food of gladness in that manifold blessed, and blessed, which Christ preached on the mount.

The same Jesus Who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation.

All Christians have the Spirit of Christ, but not all Christians have the mind of Christ.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

We know of no cure for the love of evil in a Christian like daily communion with the Lord Jesus.

How much would our churches be transformed if each of us made it a practice to thank God for others and then to tell those others what it is about them that we thank God for?

He created the church to meet your five deepest needs: a purpose to live for, people to live with, principles to live by, a profession to live out, and power to live on. There is no other place on earth where you can find all five of these benefits in one place.

Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.

In Christ, it's never too late, you're never too old... it's never "too anything" for Him to work positive change in your life.

Don't ever come to church without coming as though it were the first time, as though it could be the best time, and as though it could be the last time.

The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

The white Christian church never raised to the heights of Christ. It stayed within the limit of culture.

Most Christians never associate joy with repentance. But repentance is actually the mother of all joy in Jesus. Without it, there can be no joy. Yet, any believer who walks in repentance will be flooded with the joy of the Lord.

In the Eucharist, priest and people together come to concelebrate. Here the ladder Jacob saw only as a dream becomes for us a reality, the medicine that cures our souls.

The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.

The Christian life has been nothing more and nothing less than a daily dependence on and a rediscovery of God's grace.

Being a Christian is not just about following commandments: it is about letting Christ take possession of our lives and transform them.

We must cease to think of the church as a gathering of institutions and organizations, and we must get back to the notion that we are the people of God.

Without reservation I promise you that if each of you will observe this simple program, regardless of how many times you previously may have read the Book of Mormon, there will come into your lives and into your homes an added measure of the Spirit of the Lord, a strengthened resolution to walk in obedience to His commandments, and a stronger testimony of the living reality of the Son of God.

You do not have to be in a church to be saved, but to continue in the things of God, you must be in some type of fellowship with other Christian people.