Hannah Whitall Smith

Quotes by Hannah Whitall Smith

• Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him. The driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted the offer but, when he was seated, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders. Why do you not lay down your burden? asked the kind-hearted driver. Oh! replied the man, I feel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think of letting you carry my burden too. And so Christian who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burdens and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.

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• Most Christians are like a man who was toiling along the road, bending under a heavy burden, when a wagon overtook him. The driver kindly offered to help him on his journey. He joyfully accepted the offer but, when he was seated, continued to bend beneath his burden, which he still kept on his shoulders. Why do you not lay down your burden? asked the kind-hearted driver. Oh! replied the man, I feel that it is almost too much to ask you to carry me, and I could not think of letting you carry my burden too. And so Christian who have given themselves into the care and keeping of the Lord Jesus still continue to bend beneath the weight of their burdens and often go weary and heavy-laden throughout the whole length of their journey.

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• The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

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