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Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content
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Hannah Whitall Smith
Age: 79 †
Born: 1832
Born: February 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 1
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New Jersey
United States
Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith
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You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
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No soul can be really at rest until it has given up all dependence on everything else and has been forced to depend on the Lord alone. As long as our expectation is from other things, nothing but disappointment awaits us.
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I find that every soul that has travelled on this highway of holiness for any length of time, has invariably cut loose from its old moorings.
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We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
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It is hard for me to believe that any husband and wife are really happy together. And to have thee say you are is an unspeakable comfort.
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Put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity, and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.
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Thee may tell Aunt Janet from me that she might as well try to stop the stars in their courses as to try to stop a love affair.
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Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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Faith, like sight is nothing apart from God. You might as well shut your eyes and look inside, and see whether you have sight as to look inside to discover whether you have faith.
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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
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The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. An just so does our God to us.
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If we will only surrender ourselves utterly to the Lord, and will trust Him perfectly, we shall find our souls mounting up with wings as eagles to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, where earthly annoyances or sorrows have no power to disturb us.
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.
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If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straight away to become one. There is no fun for old people like it!
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Christians, who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus, still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burden, and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.
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Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.
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If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.
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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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