Hannah Hurnard Quotes

#1. The philosophical spirit is not satisfied to simply accept what it is told, no matter how much prestige the teller seems to have. This is true even if the teller is a god.

Brendan Myers

#2. Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

Mason Cooley

#3. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#4. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

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

Hannah Hurnard

#6. That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

Alice Hoffman

#7. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

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

Hannah Hurnard

#9. Maybe the difference between being a boy and being a man is that boys couldn't control the awful things they sometimes felt. And men could. That afternoon, I was just a boy. Not even close to being a man.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#10. Like all our memories, we like to take it out once in a while and lay it flat on the kitchen table, the way my wife does with her sewing patterns, where we line up the shape of our lives against that which we thought it would be by now.

Claire Vaye Watkins

#11. Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

#12. Don't differentiate between 'This is a job' and 'This is what I'm doing for fun.' It's all simultaneous.

Spike Jonze

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

Hannah Hurnard

#14. A lover? Maybe. Something tender, anyway. But tender like a bruise.

Marie Rutkoski

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

Hannah Hurnard

#16. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#17. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

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

Hannah Hurnard

#19. 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!

Hannah Hurnard

#20. Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Steven Erikson

#21. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#22. Those who love most, see most.

Hannah Hurnard

#23. I listen to the silence
and yearn to be more me,
swimming in the sea of myself,
learning eternally -
finding out where the rocks are
and smoothing them into sand.

Jay Woodman

#24. Erik grinned. "Do or do not. There is no try."
Only Erik would quote Yoda in bed.

Piper Vaughn

#25. Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Vladimir Lenin

#26. A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.

Vinny Appice

#27. And so my story begins, like so many stories, with a woman

Daniel Defoe

#28. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#29. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#30. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#31. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#32. 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.

Hannah Hurnard

#33. You will be able to say you have done your best at selling when you satisfy your customers' needs on a steady and consistent basis. As a professional salesperson, you can't satisfy those needs unless you know what they are and appreciate the person who has them

Jack Carew

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

Hannah Hurnard