Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
Hannah Whitall SmithRead
You find no difficulty in trusting the Lord with the management of the universe and all the outward creation, and can your case be any more complex or difficult than these, that you need to be anxious or troubled about His management of it?
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the idea of trusting a higher power with life's troubles, suggesting that none of our issues are beyond that power's management.
Hannah Whitall Smith urges individuals to reflect on their faith and trust in a higher power, questioning why they would feel anxious about their personal challenges when they can comfortably trust this power with the vast complexities of the universe. The message highlights the contrast between the enormity of the universe's management and the relatively smaller scale of personal issues, encouraging a sense of peace and reliance on divine guidance.
Themes
TrustFaithAnxietyManagementUniverse
In practice
Example use cases
During a sermon on faith and trust in God.
More from Hannah Whitall Smith
All quotes →To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely passive, and yet infinitely active also; passive as regards self and its workings, active as regards attention and response to God. It is very hard to explain this so as to be understood But it means that we must lay down all the activity of the creature, as such, and must let only the activities of God work in us, and through us, and by us. Self must step aside, to let God work.
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Many Christians still at bottom look upon God as one of the most selfish, self-absorbed Beings in the universe, far more selfish than they could think it right to be themselves, -intent only upon His own honor and glory, looking out continually that His own rights are never trampled on; and so absorbed in thoughts of Himself and of His own righteousness, as to have no love or pity to spare for the poor sinners who have offended Him.
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