Quotes from Hannah Whitall Smith

Better and sweeter than health, or friends, or money, or fame, or ease, or prosperity, is the adorable will of our God.

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

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

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.

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

God is enough! All religion is enfolded for me now in these three words.

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

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

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

It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him.

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

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

A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.

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

Holding onto what was isn't healthy for what is.

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

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.

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.

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.

The soul that gives thanks can find comfort in everything; the soul that complains can find comfort in nothing.

Comfort & peace never come from anything we know about ourselves, but only & always from what we know about Him.

It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.