Frances Ridley Havergal Quotes (15 quotes)

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

Frances Ridley Havergal

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.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

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

“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.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399.

“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.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.

“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.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 599.

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

Frances Ridley Havergal

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

Frances Ridley Havergal Quotes

“I take this pain, Lord Jesus,
From Thine own hand;
The strength to bear it bravely
Thou wilt command.
I am too weak for effort,
So let me rest,
In hush of sweet submission
On Thine own breast.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 513.

“It is not that I feel less weak, but Thou
Wilt be my strength. It is not that I see
Less sin, but more of pardoning love in Thee,
And all-sufficient grace. Enough! And now
All fluttering thought is stilled; I only rest,
And feel that Thou art near, and know that I am blest.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 447.

“Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

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?"”

Frances Ridley Havergal

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

“…. We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Autobiography (poem by Frances Havergal).

“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.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.

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

Frances Ridley Havergal

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.”

Frances Ridley Havergal

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

“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?”

Frances Ridley Havergal

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 377.

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