From The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life, by Hannah Whitall Smith
Doubts are all from the devil, and are always untrue. And the only way to meet them is by a direct and emphatic denial.
To be inwardly a king, while outwardly a slave, is one of the grandest heights of triumph of which our hearts can conceive.
It is simply letting the Lord carry our burdens and manage our affairs for us, instead of trying to do it ourselves.
This blessed life must not be looked upon in any sense as an attainment but as an obtainment.
To grow in grace is opposed to all self-dependence, to all self-effort, to all legality of every kind.
Trust and worry cannot go together. If your work is a burden, it is because you are not trusting it to Him. But if you do trust it to Him, you will surely find that the yoke He puts upon you is easy, and the burden He gives you to carry is light.
Oneness with Christ must, in the very nature of things, consist in a Christ-like life and character.
God, the Almighty God, the Creator of Heaven and earth, is not a far-off Deity.
Love gives all, and must have all in return. The wishes of one become binding obligations to the other, and the deepest desire of each heart is, that it may know every secret wish or longing of the other.
God’s works are perfect in every stage of their growth. Man’s works are never perfect until they are in every respect complete.
All discouragement is from the devil, and I wish every Christian would just take this as a pocket-piece, and never forget it.
We are not preaching a state, but a walk. The highway of holiness is not a place, but a way.
It is not what we feel, but what we are that settles the question.
The essential thing is to get within you the growing life, and then you cannot help but grow. And this life is the life hid with Christ in God, the wonderful divine life of an indwelling Holy Ghost.
It is the man that makes the action, not the action the man.
The greatest burden we have to carry in life is self. The most difficult thing we have to manage is self.
His creative power is expressed differently in each one of us. And in the individual ‘make-up’ which sometimes so troubles us, there is a manifestation of this power.
The voices may be many, the message can be but one.
God’s promise is, that He will work in us to will as well as to do of His good pleasure. This, of course, means that He will take possession of our will, and work it for us.
You have trusted Him as your dying Saviour, now trust Him as your living Saviour. Just as much as He came to deliver you from future punishment, did He also come to deliver you from present bondage.
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