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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
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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Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith
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God's slavation is not a purchase to be made, nor wages to be earned, nor a summit to be climbed, nor a task to be accomplished but it is simply and only a gift to be accepted, and can only be accepted by faith.
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Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
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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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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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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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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 must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
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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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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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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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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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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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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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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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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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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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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
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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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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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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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