Frances Ridley Havergal quotes
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“In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”
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“Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1875). “Little pillows; or, Good-night thoughts for the little ones”, p.43
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“Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63
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“Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”
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“A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
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“Poetry is a second translation of the soul's feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
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“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;Â Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63
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“Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1892). “Golden Thoughts from the Life and Works of Frances Ridley Havergal ...”
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“We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1874). “Under the Surface”, p.11
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“Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.1
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“CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal, Maria Vernon Graham Havergal, Frances Anna Shaw (1888). “Poetical Works”
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“No life can be dreary when work is delight.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1831). “Under the surface”, p.243
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“We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be.”
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“Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1888). “Royal Bounty ...”
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“Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.31
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“Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him that at every line He would give me not merely thoughts and power, but also every word, even the very rhymes.”
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“Love understands love; it needs no talk.”
-- Frances Ridley HavergalSource : Frances Ridley Havergal (1877). “Royal commandments; or, Morning thoughts for the King's servants”
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