There is no place on the road so dark but that the Bible can light you through, if you try it. When you don’t understand it, there is always Jesus to go to, you know.
—from Tip Lewis and His Lamp
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Category: Pansy’s Words of Wisdom
Short pearls of wisdom gleaned from Isabella Alden’s books.
A Mothers’ Day Thought
God gives us but one mother. Remember, she has borne for you that which no other human being has or can.
Remember that in the natural course of events the grave will in a few years, at most, close over her, leaving you behind.
Remember that when she is gone, you will think of her faults and her failings with pitiful tenderness, and want to cover them from all human eyes.
And remember, also, that the deepest sting which sorrow has for us is hidden in those soul-harrowing words, “if I only had!” or “had not!”
It would be blessed to live, no matter what the provocation, so that, standing beside an open grave, those words could have no sting for us.
—Isabella Alden
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Hereafter when I feel particularly tried with a person, I shall know that I am myself at fault toward that person, and shall ask God for a special view of my own heart concerning it.
—from Workers Together; An Endless Chain
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The Lord knows you; knows just what place He has set you in; just how many people you can touch with your influence, and just what He is going to do with them all.
—from The Pocket Measure
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They had been created each for the other; and God—who watches over human lives—had kept them apart and sacred in their loneliness until the hour when they should recognize their oneness. He believed this and yielded to the joy of it, and was as absorbed and as far from wise as any man of his acquaintance had ever been in like circumstances.
—From Pauline
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He will not come into a divided heart; a heart which says, “In some things I will obey; but in this, and this, and this, I must have my own way.”
You would not expect even a human friend who had the right to direct you, to accept such a position as that, would you? How much less the Lord?
—from Eighty-Seven
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God had not left her without witnesses to the worth of the life she was living. She had early found what some Christian workers have yet to learn—that the road to hearts lies oftentimes by way of the most commonplace of domestic duties.
She earned her living by sweeping and dusting and fruit-canning, and a dozen other homely back-door occupations; but she lived in order to show forth the strength and the beauty of a life “hid with Christ in God.”
—from Pauline
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She weighed the possibilities now, much as she might have weighed the question whether she should or should not go to the lecture that evening. Should she take a new stand; begin to pray, to read her Bible, to go to church regularly, and to prayer-meeting, and honestly try to follow Christ? She had never given it careful consideration before, but why should she not? She was tired of all her surroundings; nothing in or about her home or her life was quite as she wished it. Why not have it utterly different? In short, why not try Christianity for all it was worth? She did not settle the question; but as she applied the latch-key to their own door, she almost thought she would.
—from What They Couldn’t
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I think if I could help to lead one person to understand and love the Lord Jesus Christ as much even as I understand Him now, so that He would be that soul’s eternal salvation, it would be ambition enough to fill a lifetime.
—The Hall in the Grove
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A great deal of money and a great deal of force, which might do wonders elsewhere, are wasted on dress.
—Ruth Erskine’s Crosses
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