Hannah Hurnard Quotes

#1. It means there are no obstacles which our Savior's love cannot overcome, and that to him, mountains of difficulty are as easy as an asphalt road!

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#2. Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love. Those who love most, see most.

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#3. Those who love most, see most.

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#4. Humble yourself, and you will find that Love is spreading a carpet of flowers beneath your feet.

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#5. As for the other three, they have made off into some hiding place, and are not likely to trouble you again in the same way now that they realize that I am within call.

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#6. The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

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#7. I am not fair save to the King, Though fair my royal dress, His kingly grace is lavished on My need and worthlessness. My blemishes he will not see But loves the beauty that shall be.

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#8. O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places".
"Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

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#9. I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born ... can be transformed into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

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#10. The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills (Song of Solomon 2:8).

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#11. It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

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#12. In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.

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#13. Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

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#14. Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

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#15. Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

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#16. God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

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#17. Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

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#18. When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

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#19. She had the feeling that somehow, in the very far-off places, perhaps even in far-off ages, there would be a meaning found to all sorrow and an answer too fair and wonderful to be as yet understood.

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