Frances R Havergal Quotes

#1. I don't care about anything but keeping her alive. If it's a child she wants, she can have it. She can have half a dozen babies. Anything she wants. She can have puppies, if that's what it takes.

Stephenie Meyer

#2. Love is the magic of our life.

Debasish Mridha

#3. I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

Jake Bugg

#4. 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 Havergal

#5. 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.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#6. Seldom can the heart be lonely,
If it seek a lonelier still;
Self-forgetting, seeking only
Emptier cups of love to fill.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#7. What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

Edmund Spenser

#8. 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 Havergal

#9. 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 Havergal

#10. Although we have our compendia of flora, fauna, birds, reptiles and insects, we lack a Terra Britannica, as it were: a gathering of terms for the land and its specificities

Robert Macfarlane

#11. We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Frances Ridley Havergal

#12. Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#13. The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

Eric Hoffer

#14. Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#15. When your novel first peeks its head into the world, it will look pretty much like every newborn: blotchy, hairless, and utterly confused.

Chris Baty

#16. No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#17. 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 Havergal

#18. ...in the end it was better to have the love of a confessed killer, than to have no love at all, especially when you were just twelve years old.

Keith Crews

#19. Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#20. 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 Havergal

#21. Do what Thou wilt! Yes, only do
What seemeth good to Thee;
Thou art so loving, wise, and true,
It must be best for me.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#22. I take this pain, Lord Jesus,
From Thine own hand;
The strength to bear it bravely
Thou wilt command.
I am too weak for effort.
So let me rest,
In hush of sweet submission
On Thine own breast.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#23. Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught

Frances Ridley Havergal

#24. And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

Petrarch

#25. Love understands love; it needs no talk.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#26. Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.

Lord Chesterfield

#27. 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 Havergal

#28. 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.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#29. 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 Havergal

#30. A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#31. I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.

Bill Gross