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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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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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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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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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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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Those who are God's without reserve are, in every sense, content
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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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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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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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I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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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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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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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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Of all hateful occupations, housekeeping is to my mind the most hateful.
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An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.
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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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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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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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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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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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