Short pearls of wisdom gleaned from Isabella Alden’s books.
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
You cannot have lived in this world so long without discovering that pain and disappointment of every sort are not happenings, but have their own wise and most important ends to fulfill, though we may be too childish to see the occasion, or understand the remedy.
—Spun from Fact
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Isn’t it a pity in this carping world we cannot oftener put ourselves in other people’s places, mentally, at least, and try to discover how we should probably feel, and talk, and act, were we surrounded by their circumstances and biased by their educations?
—from A New Graft on the Family Tree
If people only would influence each other just as much as they could, and just as high as they could, what a wonderful thing this living would be!
—from A New Graft on the Family Tree
I will give you a general rule, which I have found a great benefit in my Christian life. If you find there is the least doubt in your mind as to the right or wrong of a certain path, give Christ the benefit of the doubt and you will surely be right.
—from Cunning Workmen
“Diligent in business, serving the Lord.” There is no period dividing these. I long ago discovered that I could make a bed and sweep a room for His sake, as surely as I could speak a word for Him.
—A New Graft on the Family Tree
Someone wise in soul lore has said, “What Christ is to us depends upon what we are willing to be to Him.”
—By Way of the Wilderness
“Get thee behind me, Satan.”
The only perfect Life gave that sentence once, not alone for Himself. Thank God, He has many a time since enabled His weak children of the flesh to repeat it in triumph.
As long as people live careless lives, Satan is not going to trouble his head with them. It is those who are striving to follow closely he is most concerned about.
—Aunt Hannah and Martha and John
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