Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.
The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.
God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.
Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow
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.
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.
The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now.
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!
Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!
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.
Before the acorn can bring forth the oak, it must become itself a wreck. No plant ever came from any but a wrecked seed.
We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
If our hearts are full of our own wretched "I ams" we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying "I Am."
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
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.
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
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.
Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.
It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
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.
Somehow even tragedies seem less tragical, when you are the actors in them, than they look to outsiders
I wonder how many of our tombstones will have to be inscribed with the epitaph 'Died of too many meetings'?
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.
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
It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.
The true secret of giving advice is after you have honestly given it to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.
Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.
He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.