The mother eagle teaches her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves to the unknown world of air outside. And just so does our God to us. He stirs up our comfortable nests, and pushes us over the edge of them, and we are forced to use our wings to save ourselves from fatal falling. Read your trials in this light, and see if you cannot begin to get a glimpse of their meaning. Your wings are being developed.
Hannah Whitall SmithIt is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.
Hannah Whitall SmithWe were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
Hannah Whitall SmithWe must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.
Hannah Whitall Smith