Hinds' Feet On High Places Quotes
"It means there are no obstacles which our Savior’s love cannot overcome, and that to him, mountains of difficulty are as easy as an asphalt road!"
"To learn the secret of victorious living has been the heart’s desire of those who love the Lord, in every generation."
"He has made us for himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in him."
"Every acceptance of his will becomes an altar of sacrifice, and every such surrender and abandonment of ourselves to his will is a means of furthering us on the way to the High Places."
"Don’t be afraid," said the Shepherd gently. "You are in my service, and if you will trust me they will not be able to force you against your will into any family alliance."
"But it is so happy to love," said the Shepherd quietly. "It is happy to love even if you are not loved in return."
"I must tell you a great truth, Much-Afraid, which only the few understand. All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at."
"Nothing my Father and I have made is ever wasted," he said quietly, "and the little wild flowers have a wonderful lesson to teach."
"As Love grows in you, Much-Afraid, you will come to understand many things which you never dreamed of before."
"I could carry you all the way up to the High Places myself, instead of leaving you to climb there. But if I did, you would never be able to develop hinds’ feet, and become my companion and go where I go."
"You will give me a new name when I get to the top?"
"Trust is one of the most beautiful things in the world."
"This further delay is not unto death, but for the glory of God; that the son of God may be glorified."
"When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold."
"The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow."
"Behold me, here I am, growing in your heart, 'Acceptance-with-Joy.'"
"Thy little handmaiden Acceptance-with-Joy and all that is in my heart is thine."
"I am afraid there is nothing much in the garden of my heart as yet, Shepherd, but all that there is, is yours to do with as you please."
"Why, I don’t know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection."
"Nothing else matters but that you should have your own way with me."
"I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord."
"If I sing quite loudly, I shall not be able to hear what they say."
"It is a good idea. I wish I had thought of it before."
"Do you love me enough to be able to trust me completely, Much-Afraid?"
"Though everyone in the world should tell me that you had deceived me, I should know it was impossible."
"I am my Love's and he is mine, And this is his desire, That with his beauty I may shine In radiant attire."
"All she wanted was to be allowed to follow him forever."
"Nothing could fit, fill, or satisfy her heart but he himself."
"Thou hast a little strength and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name."
"The rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon the house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock."
"This is where I am to make my offering." She went up to the altar and knelt down. "My Lord," she said softly through the mist. "Will you come to me now and help me to make my burnt offering as you have commanded me?"
"In all the world only one thing really mattered, to do the will of the one she followed and loved, no matter what it involved or cost."
"She knew now without a shadow of doubt that there would be no Angel to call from heaven to say that the sacrifice need not be made."
"The grave up on the mountains is at the very edge of the High Places and beyond the reach of Pride and Bitterness and Resentment and Self-Pity, yes, and of Fear too."
"She felt nothing but a great stillness in which only one desire remained, to do that which he had told her, simply because he had asked it of her."
"After the priest had unbound her she leaned forward over the ashes on the altar and said with complete thanksgiving, 'It is finished.'"
"It was like immersing herself in a stream of bubbling life."
"He was there—standing on the peak—just as she had known he would be, strong and grand and glorious in the beauty of the sunrise."
"At last," he said, as she knelt speechless at his feet, "at last you are here and the ‘night of weeping is over and joy comes to you in the morning.'"
"She marveled at the grace and love and tenderness and patience which had led and trained and guarded and kept poor faltering Much-Afraid."
"Help me to open myself to more light. Help me to fuller understanding."