Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
Hannah Whitall SmithKeep your face upturned to Christ as the flowers do to the sun. Look, and your soul shall live and grow
Hannah Whitall SmithBy faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
Hannah Whitall SmithSelf-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.
Hannah Whitall SmithFor the decisions of our will are often so directly opposed to the decisions of our emotions, that, if we are in the habit of considering our emotions as the test, we shall be very apt to feel like hypocrites in declaring those things to be real which our will alone has decided.
Hannah Whitall Smith