Every year, I might almost say every day, that I live, I seem to see more clearly how all the rest and gladness and power of our Christian life hinge…

- Frances Ridley Havergal

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

- Frances Ridley Havergal

I take this pain, Lord Jesus, From Thine own hand; The strength to bear it bravely Thou wilt command. I am too weak for effort. So let me rest, In hu…

- Frances Ridley Havergal

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

- Frances Ridley Havergal

Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

- Frances Ridley Havergal

Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.

- Frances Ridley Havergal

Writing is praying with me. You know a child would look up at every sentence and say, 'And what shall I say next?' That is just what I do; I ask Him …

- Frances Ridley Havergal

In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient …

- Frances Ridley Havergal

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

- Frances Ridley Havergal