The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life Quotes

“It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

“put together all the tenderest love you know of, multiply it by infinity and you will begin to see glimpses of the love and grace of God.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

“Remember, then, that the real thing in your experience is what your will decides, and not the verdict of your emotions; and that you are far more in danger of hypocrisy and untruth in yielding to the assertions of your feelings, than in holding fast to the decision of your will. So that, if your will is on God’s side, you are no hypocrite at this moment in claiming as your own the blessed reality of belonging altogether to Him, even though your emotions may all declare the contrary.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“Put together all the tenderest love you know of dear reader the deepest you have ever felt and the strongest that has ever been poured out upon you and heap upon it all the love of all the loving human hearts in the world and then multiply it by infinity and you will begin perhaps to have some faint glimpses of what the love of God in Christ Jesus is. And this is grace.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

“Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“Man’s Christianity teaches sacrifice to save ourselves; Christ’s Christianity teaches sacrifice to save others. Man’s Christianity produces the fruitless selfishness of too much of our religion. Christ’s Christianity produces the blessed unselfishness of lives that are poured out for others, as was His.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“The teaching here is simply this, that anything allowed in the heart which is contrary to the will of God, let it seem ever so insignificant, or be ever so deeply hidden, will cause us to fall before our enemies.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“we can and must love the will of God in the trial, for His will is always sweet, whether it be in joy or in sorrow.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“The apple in June is a perfect apple for June. It is the best apple that June can produce. But it is very different from the apple in October, which is a perfected apple.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life - Hannah Whitall Smith

“are to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, that we may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God. A real work is to be wrought in us and upon us. Besetting sins are to be conquered; evil habits are to be overcome; wrong dispositions and feelings are to be rooted out, and holy tempers and emotions are to be begotten. A”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

“Christ is believed in, talked about, and served -- but He is not known as the soul's actual and very life, abiding there forever, and revealing Himself there continually in His beauty.”
― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

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― Hannah Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life

“Like any other sin, the stronghold is in the will, and the will or purpose to doubt must be surrendered exactly as you surrender the will or purpose to yield to any other temptation. God always takes possession of a surrendered will.”
― Hanna Whitall Smith, The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life