Frances Ridley Havergal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Patient #Made
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

#Heart #Thrones #Royal
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

#Lonely #Heart #Self
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

#Encouraging #Encouragement #Blessed
A great deal of living must go to a very little writing.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Writing #Littles #Deals
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

#Heart #Soul #Feelings
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 Havergal

#Grief #Silence #Secret
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

#Sky #Drawing #Joy
We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Writing #Ciphers
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Radiance #Gleam #Caught
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

#Jesus #Heart #Mean
No life can be dreary when work is delight.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Work #Delight
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

#Thanksgiving #Spiritual #Voice
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Doubt
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

#Giving #Masters #Thee
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

#Children #Writing #Giving
Love understands love; it needs no talk.
-- Frances Ridley Havergal

#Life #Needs

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