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Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
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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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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Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.
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Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
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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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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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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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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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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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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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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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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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Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
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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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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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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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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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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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Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.
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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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