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Once I knew what it was to rest upon the rock of God's promises, and it was indeed a precious resting place, but now I rest in His grace. He is teaching me that the bosom of His love is a far sweeter resting-place than even the rock of His promises.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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Hannah Whitall Smith
Age: 79 †
Born: 1832
Born: February 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 1
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Suffragette
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New Jersey
United States
Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith
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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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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 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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My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird
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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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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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This way of seeing our Father in everything makes life one long thanksgiving and gives a rest of heart, and, more than that, a gayety of spirit, that is unspeakable.
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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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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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Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
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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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When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
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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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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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You have trusted Him as your dying Savior now trust Him as your living Savior. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment did He also come to deliver you from present bondage. Just as truly as He came to bear your stripes for you has He come to live your life for you.
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
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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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Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.
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For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
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