Quotes from Hannah Whitall Smith

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.

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.

Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.

There is no happiness in the world equal to the happiness of being good.

Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!

When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.

Nothing else is needed to quiet all your fears, but just this, that GOD IS.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.

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.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

Faith is nothing at all tangible. ... It is simply believing God; and like sight, it is nothing apart from its object. 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.