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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.

Hannah Whitall Smith

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Hannah Whitall Smith
Age: 79 †
Born: 1832
Born: February 7
Died: 1911
Died: May 1
Author
Suffragette
Theologian
Writer
New Jersey
United States
Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith
Long
Rest
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Seeing
Life
Father
Makes
Spirit
Gayety
Everything
Unspeakable
Giving
Thanksgiving
Heart
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Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.
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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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Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.
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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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Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
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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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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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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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God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.
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Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
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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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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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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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When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
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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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Nothing else but seeing God in everything can make us loving and patient with those who annoy us. When we realize that they are only the instruments for accomplishing His purpose in our lives, we will actually be able to thank them [inwardly] for the blessings they bring us.
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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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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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