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Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.

Hannah Whitall Smith

Believe, Sight, Feelings

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The mother eagle teaches 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. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.

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Mother, Fall, Light

Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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Nothing can separate you from His love, absolutely nothing, neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature... We do not need to beg Him to bless us, He simply cannot help it. Therefore God is enough! God is enough for time, God is enough for eternity. God is enough!

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God, Religious, Time

"God of All Comfort".

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In the secret of God's tabernacle no enemy can find us, and no troubles can reach us. The pride of man and the strife of tongues find no entrance into the pavilion of God. The secret of his presence is a more secure refuge than a thousand Gibraltars. I do not mean that no trials come. They may come in abundance, but they cannot penetrate into the sanctuary of the soul, and we may dwell in perfect peace even in the midst of life fiercest storms.

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Mean, Pride, Men

Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.126, Anamchara Books

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To sum it all up, then, what is needed for happy and effectual service is simply to put your work into the Lord's hands, and leave it there. Do not take it to Him in prayer, saying, “Lord, guide me, Lord, give me wisdom, Lord, arrange for me,” and then arise from your knees and take the burden all back, and try to guide and arrange for yourself. Leave it with the Lord; and remember that what you trust to Him you must not worry over nor feel anxious about. Trust and worry cannot go together.

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Prayer, Hands, Giving

"Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume".

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You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?

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Worry, Needs, Management

Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.84, Moody Publishers

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Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.

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Rowing, Not Afraid, Standing Still

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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.

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Facts, Theory, Statements

Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.22, Anamchara Books

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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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Trouble, Lord

St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set”, p.1209, Moody Publishers

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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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Mom, Mother, Teacher

Hannah Whitall Smith (1899). “Child Culture, Or, The Science of Motherhood”

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What you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.

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Change, Trust, God

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Remember always that there are two things which are more utterly incompatible even than oil and water, and these two are trust and worry. Can you call it trust, when you have given the saving and keeping of your soul into the hands of God, if day after day you are spending hours of anxious thought and questionings about the matter? When believers really trust anything, they cease to worry about the thing they have trusted.

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Trust, Anxious Thoughts, Two

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God will help us become the people we are meant to be, if only we will ask Him

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Christian, People, Helping

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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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Punishment, Live Your Life, Stripes

Hannah Whitall Smith (1876). “The Christian's secret of a happy life. By H.W.S.”, p.49

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You must remember that our God has all knowledge and all wisdom, and that therefore it is very possible He may guide you into paths wherein He knows great blessings are awaiting you, but which, to the shortsighted human eyes around you, seem sure to result in confusion and loss.

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God, Eye, Loss

St. Augustine, Dr. Howard Taylor, Mrs. Howard Taylor, Apostolic Fathers, J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Moody Classics Complete Set: Includes 19 Classics of the Faith in a Single Volume”, p.1326, Moody Publishers

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Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

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Individuality, Crowds

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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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Hands, Temptation, Feelings

Hannah Whitall Smith (2009). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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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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Disappointment, Long, Expectations

Hannah Whitall Smith (1956). “The God of All Comfort”, p.206, CCEL

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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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Tasks, Wages, Accepted

Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.192, Anamchara Books

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Keep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow

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Christian, Flower, Soul

Hannah Whitall Smith (1888). “The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life”

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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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Blessing, Purpose, Able

Catherine Jackson, Hannah Whitall Smith (1979). “The Christian's secret of a happy life for today: a paraphrase of Hannah Whitall Smith's classic”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.

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God, Religious, Selfish

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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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Jesus, Eagles, Wings

HANNAH WHITALL SMITH (1952). “THE CHRISTIANS SECRET OF A HAPPY LIFE”

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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!

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Blessed, Joy, Lovely

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To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.

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Letting Go, Mean, Self

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Born: February 7, 1832
Died: May 1, 1911
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