Oh to be my
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught Frances Ridley Havergal
Frances Ridley Havergal
A great deal of
A great deal of living must go to a very little writing. Frances Ridley Havergal
We write our lives
We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author Frances Ridley Havergal
Doubt indulged soon becomes
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized. Frances Ridley Havergal
We give thanks often
We give thanks often with a tearful, doubtful voice, for our spiritual mercies positive, but what an almost infinite field there is for mercies negative! We cannot even imagine all that God has allowed us not to do, not to be. Frances Ridley Havergal
Poetry is a second
Poetry is a second translation of the soul’s feeling; it must be rendered into thought, and thought must change its nebulous robe of semi-wording into definite language, before it reaches another heart. Music is a first translation of feeling, needing no second, but entering the heart direct. Frances Ridley Havergal
No life can be
No life can be dreary when work is delight. Frances Ridley Havergal
Earthly joy can take
Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory. Frances Ridley Havergal
I do – oh,
I do – oh, indeed I do – desire to live up to my profession, to be His, for time and eternity. But I am learning to sec how very weak I am, and how easily Satan can conquer me even when I do strive against him. I do believe with my head that Jesus … Read more
They would make the
They would make the ‘Church ‘ their great meeting-point, rather than the Atonement of Christ. As far as my experience goes, they have more devoutness and less devotion, more fear and less love, more feeling of duty than of desire, laying more stress on Phil. ii. 12 than ver. 13, and in practice working upon … Read more