Frances

“I do love you, you know that I love you. Oh, forgive me because I can’t help my tears. I will go down with you into the wilderness, right away from the promise, if you really wish it. Even if you cannot tell me why it has to be, I will go with you, for you know I do love you, and you have the right to choose for me anything that you please.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places

“In the meantime, I am pained with His love, because I want real possession. When Christ cometh, He stayeth not long. But certainly the blowing of His breath upon a poor soul is heaven upon earth; and when the wind turneth into the north, and He goeth away, I die, till the wind change into the west, and he visit his prisoner. But He holdeth me not often at His door. I am richly repaid for suffering for Him.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Letters of Samuel Rutherford: Excerpts from Thirty Important Letters

“I have been told that if you really love someone you give that loved one the power to hurt and pain you in a way nothing else can.” “That is true,” agreed the Shepherd. “To love does mean to put yourself into the power of the loved one and to become very vulnerable to pain, and you are very Much-Afraid of pain, are you not?”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places

“The little wild flowers have a wonderful lesson to teach. They offer themselves so sweetly and confidently and willingly, even if it seems that there is no one to appreciate them. Just as though they sang a joyous little song to themselves, that it is so happy to love even though one is not loved in return. 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. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self0love is a new flower on the tree of love.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places