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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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
Theologian
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New Jersey
United States
Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith
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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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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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Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
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When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
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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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We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
Hannah Whitall Smith
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
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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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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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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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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
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Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.
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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.
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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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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.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.
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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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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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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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