Frances Ridley Havergal Quotes

Frances Ridley Havergal was an English religious poet and hymnwriter. Take My Life and Let it Be and Thy Life for Me are two of her best known hymns. She also wrote hymn melodies, religious tracts, and works for children. She did not occupy, and did not claim for herself, a prominent place as a poet, but by her distinct individuality, she carved out a niche which she alone could fill. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. December 1836 – 3. June 1879
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Famous Frances Ridley Havergal Quotes

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 10.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 159.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 610.

Frances Ridley Havergal Quotes

“Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 195.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 251.

“Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught”

Prelude to The Ministry of Song, James Nisbet & Co, 1879.

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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 587.

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