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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — Frances Ridley Havergal

1836–1879 England

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Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Oh, give Thine own sweet rest to me,
That I may speak with soothing power
A word in season, as from Thee,
To weary ones in needful hour.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

All the lessons He shall send
Are the sweetest:
And His training, in the end,
Is completest.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If washed in Jesus' blood,
Then bear His likeness too,
And as you onward press
Ask, "What would Jesus do?"

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

What He tells thee in the darkness,
Weary watcher for the day,
Grateful lip and heart should utter
When the shadows flee away.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Jesus, my life is Thine,
And ever more shall be
Hidden in Thee,
For nothing can untwine
Thy life from mine.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Teach us, Master, how to give
All we have and are to Thee;
Grant us, Saviour, while we live,
Wholly, only Thine to be.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Upon Thy word I rest.
So strong, so sure:
So full of comfort blest,
So sweet, so pure —
The word that changeth not, that faileth never!
My King, I rest upon Thy word forever.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Only, stay by his side
Till the page is really known,
It may be we failed because we tried
To learn it all alone,
And now that He would not let us lose
One lesson of love
(For He knows the loss,) — can we refuse?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Jesus, Master, I am Thine;
Keep me faithful, keep me near;
Let Thy presence in me shine
All my homeward way to cheer.
Jesus, at Thy feet I fall,
Oh, be Thou my All in All.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frances Ridley Havergal (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.