Mary Gardiner Brainard Quotes

• I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Distance, Dark, Past

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• That which we look on with unselfish love
  And true humility is surely ours,
  Even as a lake looks at the stars above
  And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Stars, Humility, Lakes

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• And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Distance, Dark, Looks

  "Not Knowing". The Congregationalist; set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s, as quoted in "Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss" (2007) by Thomas Corts, March 1869.

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