All serious daring starts from within.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Famous Quotes
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Motivational
Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Faith
Between the mysteries of death and lifeThou Lamb that hast been slain, we rest in Thee.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Religion
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Virtue
Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Religion
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, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity — because as a lover of my country I trembled at the coming day of wrath. 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
Social Justice
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ethics
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Family