74 Quotes by Hannah Whitall Smith

Follow the crowd and you will never be followed by a crowd.

An idea is a curious thing. It will not work unless you do.

You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?

Our God is so wonderfully good, and lovely, and blessed in every way that the mere fact of belonging to Him is enough for an untellable fullness of joy!

Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel is faith; and everywhere the Bible tells us our salvation is to be by faith. Therefore we must believe before we feel, and often against our feelings, if we would honor faith.

We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

Perfect obedience would be perfect happiness, if only we had perfect confidence in the power we were obeying.

If our hearts are full of our own wretched “I ams” we will have no ears to hear His glorious, soul-satisfying “I Am.”

My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird.