“I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can. — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
As Christians we know, in theory at least, that in the life of a child of God there are no second causes, that even the most unjust and cruel things, as well as all seemingly pointless and undeserved sufferings, have been permitted by God as a glorious opportunity for us to react to them in such a way that our… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share
... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
“There is absolutely no experience, however terrible, or heartbreaking, or unjust, or cruel, or evil, which you can meet in the course of your earthly life, that can harm you if you but let Me teach you how to accept it with joy; and to react to it triumphantly as I did myself, with love and forgiveness and with willingness… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share
He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned for me all that was taken from me and done against me. There is no flower in all the world more blessed or more satisfied than I, for I look up to [my Love] as a weaned child and say, 'Whom have I in heaven but Thee, and… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share
“Up from behind a sand dune close beside her rose the form of her enemy Bitterness. He did not come any nearer, having learned a little more prudence, and was not going to make her call for the Shepherd if he could avoid it, but simply stood and looked at her and laughed and laughed again, the bitterest sound that… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share
Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege. — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
I have tried to show as clearly as possible that the very characteristics and weaknesses of temperament with which we were born...can be transformed… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
Love opens the eyes of our understanding and enables us to see more of the truth than can those who are blinded by self-love.… — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him. — Hannah Hurnard Copy Share Image
