The Life Defined/How to Enter In

3:  '"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee:  because he trusteth in thee.'  This is the Divine description of the life of faith about which I am writing.  It is no speculative theory, neither is it a dream of romance.  There is such a thing as having one's soul kept in perfect peace, now and here in this life; and childlike trust in God is the key to its attainment."

4:  "I wish only I could show to every one the unfathomable sweetness of the will of God...could we but for a moment get a glimpse into the mighty depths of His love, our hearts would spring out to meet His will and embrace it as our richest treasure and we would abandon ourselves to it with an enthusiasm of gratitude and joy that such a wondrous privilege could be ours."  

The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life...

...by Hannah Whitall Smith

I started this book that was lent to me by my aunt.  I hope you enjoy some of my favorite quotes from each chapter!

1:  "The cross of Christ, by the same might and decisive stroke where with it moved the curse of sin away from us, also surely moves away the power and the love of it from over us."  

2:  "Trust is the beginning and the continuing foundation; but when we trust, the Lord works, and His work is the important part of the whole matter.  And this explains that apparent paradox which puzzles so many.  They say, 'In one breath you tell us to do nothing but trust, and in the next you tell us to do impossible things.  How can you reconcile such contradictory statements?'  They are to be reconciled, just as we reconcile the statements concerning a saw in a carpenter's shop when we say, at one moment, that the saw has sawn asunder a log, and the next moment declare that the carpenter has done it.  The saw is the instrument used; the power that uses it is the carpenter's.  And so we, yielding ourselves unto God, and our members as instruments of righteousness unto Him, find that He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure, and we can say with Paul, 'I labored; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.'"