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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
Accept and bear and obey the Law of Love, and nothing will be able to cripple your hinds' feet or to separate you from me. This is the secret of the High Places, Grace and Glory, it is the lovely and perfect law of the whole universe. It is this that makes the radiant joy of the Heavenly Places.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
the same love and graciousness as though I were a queen already and not wretched little Much-Afraid." Then she looked up into his face and for a little time could say no more, but at last she added, "My Lord, I cannot tell you how greatly I want to regard others in the same way.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
The third thing that I learned was that you, my Lord, never regarded me as I actually was, lame and weak and crooked and cowardly. You saw me as I would be when you had done what you promised and had brought me to the High Places, when it could be truly said, 'There is none that walks with such a queenly ease, nor with such grace, as she.' You always treated me with
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
But the High Places of victory and union with Christ cannot be reached by any mental reckoning of self to be dead to sin, or by seeking to devise some way or discipline by which the will can be crucified. The only way is by learning to accept, day by day, the actual conditions and tests permitted by God, by a continually repeated laying down of our own will and acceptance of his as it is presented to us in the form of the people with whom we have to live and work, and in the things which happen to us.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds Feet on High Places
The High Places and the hinds' feet do not refer to heavenly places after death, but are meant to be the glorious experience of God's children here and now-if they will follow the path he chooses for them.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds Feet on High Places
Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds Feet on High Places
Then she looked at the Shepherd and suddenly knew she could not doubt him, could not possibly turn back from following him; that if she were unfit and unable to love anyone else in the world, yet in her trembling, miserable little heart, she did love him. Even if he asked the impossible, she could not refuse.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
Many a quiet, ordinary, and hidden life, unknown to the world, is a veritable garden in which Love's flowers and fruits have come to such perfection that it is a place of delight where the King of Love himself walks and rejoices with his friends."
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills" {Song of Solomon 2:8}. When asked what the verse meant, she looked up with a happy smile of understanding and said, "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!" From
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds Feet on High Places
As for the other three, they have made off into some hiding place, and are not likely to trouble you again in the same way now that they realize that I am within call.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
For he loves each one of us," she said to herself, "as though there were only one to love.
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Hannah Hurnard _ Hinds' Feet on High Places
So remember this; as long as you are willing to be Acceptance-with-Joy and Bearing-in-Love, you can never again be crippled, and you will be able to go wherever I lead you. You will be able to go down into the Valley of the world to work with me there, for that is where the evil and sorrowful and ugly things are which need to be overcome.
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