Hannah Hurnard Quotes

• 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. Those who love most, see most.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Eye, Self, Understanding

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• God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Heart, Perfect, Satisfaction

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.12, Destiny Image Publishers

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• Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Hurt, Enemy, Reactions

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• Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Thinking, Evil, Forever

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• O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places". "Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.

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  Feet, Shepherds, Use

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.166, Destiny Image Publishers

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• ... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

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  Ugly, Matter, Love And Forgiveness

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.316, Destiny Image Publishers

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• 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 Lord and Savior is able to produce in us, little by little, his own lovely character.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Christian, Children, Character

  "Hinds' Feet on High Places: An Engaging Visual Journey".

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• It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Giving Up, Way, Crawling

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• Behold me, here I am; thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine.

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  Heart, Acceptance, Here I Am

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.150, Destiny Image Publishers

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• The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.

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  Heart, Thinking, Comforting

  Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the place which you dread you will find that they are as different as possible from what you have imagined, just as was the case when you were actually ascending the precipice. I must warn you that I see your enemies lurking among the trees ahead, and if you ever let Craven Fear begin painting a picture on the screen of your imagination, you will walk with fear and trembling and agony, where no fear is.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Believe, Agony, Imagination

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.192, Destiny Image Publishers

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• When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.

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  Weed, Flower, Heart

  Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• He shines upon me and makes me to rejoice, and has atoned to me for 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 there is none upon earth that I desire but Thee'.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Children, Flower, Blessed

  "Hinds Feet on High Places".

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• Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

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  Prayer, Creative, Needs

  Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.251, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• 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 into their exact opposites and can therefore produce in us the loveliest of all qualities.

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  Opposites, Quality, Weakness

  Hannah Hurnard (2012). “Mountains of Spices”, p.258, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Those who love most, see most.

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