• “But the misfortune is that people wish to direct God instead of resigning themselves to be directed by Him. We wish to take the lead, and to follow in a way of their own selection instead of submissively and passively following where God sees fit to conduct them. And hence it is, that many souls who are called to the enjoyment of God himself and mot merely to the gifts of God, spend all their lives in pursuing and in feeding on little consolations.” – Madame Guyon

Hannah Whitall Smith

Hannah Whitall Smith’s Conversion


(Author, The Christian’s Secret of a Happy Life)


I was born in Philadelphia, Pa., second month, eleventh day, 1832.… Continue reading

Difficulties Concerning Faith by Hannah Whitall Smith

Chapter 6

(From ‘The Christian’s Secret of A Happy Life’)

The next step after consecration, in the soul’s progress out… Continue reading

The Unselfishness of God by Hannah Whitall Smith

I have always felt that this time my real discovery of the unselfishness of God began. Up to then, while… Continue reading

  • “Jesus, who so often says “Whoever loves Me…” “Do you love Me?” is concerned about our LOVE! He is concerned about a special kind of love…He who has loved us so much wants to possess us completely, with everything we are and have. Jesus gave Himself wholly and completely for us. Now His love is yearning for us to surrender ourselves and everything that we are to Him, so that He can really be our “first love” – Basilea Schlink

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