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    Pansies for Thoughts
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    Pansies for Thoughts

    By Grace Livingston Hill

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    The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt’s works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name “Pansy”). It is a quote for each day of the year from one of the “Pansy Books” plus a bit of related scripture or verse.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClassica Libris
    Release dateFeb 5, 2019
    ISBN9788832509267
    Pansies for Thoughts
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    Grace Livingston Hill

    Grace Livingston Hill was an early–twentieth century novelist who wrote both under her real name and the pseudonym Marcia Macdonald. She wrote more than one hundred novels and numerous short stories. She was born in Wellsville, New York, in 1865 to Marcia Macdonald Livingston and her husband, Rev. Charles Montgomery Livingston. Hill’s writing career began as a child in the 1870s, writing short stories for her aunt’s weekly children’s publication, The Pansy. She continued writing into adulthood as a means to support her two children after her first husband died. Hill died in 1947 in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

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      Pansies for Thoughts - Grace Livingston Hill

      LIVINGSTON

      Copyright

      First published in 1888

      Copyright © 2019 Classica Libris

      PREFACE

      I have followed with absorbing interest the compilation of this volume. As I have watched the fair young head bent from day to day over The Deathless Book, making quotations from its inspired pages that should repeat and emphasize my own thoughts, there has been a grateful, uplifting, humbling realization of the fact that I was being linked with immortality! For certainly the words that accompany my simple ones make each page glow with a light that shall have power to shine even to the very gates of the eternal city.

      Moreover, as I have watched the thoughtful face of the compiler brighten and flush, and her eyes grow earnest while her heart took in some solemn charge of the Master, I have felt that, as she transmitted it to paper, there went with it a prayer that the Holy Spirit who had guided her choice, would use these pages in a way to lead some souls daily higher, and higher, even into the shining light of the perfect day.

      In this wish and prayer I join her earnestly, as the little book goes out to do its work.

      Pansy

      JANUARY

      1. The Lord knows the end from the beginning, and nothing is surer than that He uses His children to carry out His plans.

      An Endless Chain

      He knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness.

      2. This is my verse when I am discouraged: Wait on the Lord; be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

      Ester Ried

      "No word He hath spoken,

      Was ever yet broken."

      3. Pity’s sake! if you weren’t going to be a better woman by ten thousand times when you get to heaven than you are here, why, heaven would be an out and out disappointment, that’s all, said Priscilla Hunter.

      Miss Priscilla Hunter

      And as we have borne the image of the earthly, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

      4. Conscience, working all alone, is a very uncomfortable and disagreeable companion, and often accomplishes for the time being nothing beyond making his victim disagreeable.

      The Chautauqua Girls at Home

      Their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another.

      5. You take a diamond and throw it down in the dirt and filth, and put your foot on it and grind it in, and leave it there, sinking and soiling, day after day, year after year, and when somebody comes along and picks it out, how much will it gleam for Him at first? Yet the diamond is there.

      Ester Ried Yet Speaking

      Thou shalt be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

      6. Peace with God! It expresses so much! Peace is greater than joy, or comfort, or rest.

      Ruth Erskine’s Crosses

      And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also you are called in one body.

      7. Mine is the doing when He says the word, but His is the bringing to pass. And that, you see, is the end of all worrying and planning and doubt. There is no rest nor comfort outside of that conclusion.

      The Randolphs

      Then he said unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.

      8. A sweet-faced cooing baby, arrayed in fine white-broidered garments, with bright eyes and dimpled chin, and mouth that breaks into radiant smiles whenever one looks that way, is an exquisite bit of enjoyment for anybody.

      Mrs. Solomon Smith

      And when she saw that he was a goodly child she hid him three months.

      9. What a fearful world it would be if things just happened, with nobody to manage or control!

      An Endless Chain

      For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him.

      10. We grieve sometimes that we cannot know people’s hearts, and foresee what would please, and what would irritate. Hearts calm down wonderfully sometimes; what need then to know of their depths while at boiling point? But what sights must the all-seeing God look down upon! Sights in tenderness shut away from the gaze of His weak children.

      A New Graft

      For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

      11. Dilligent in business, serving the Lord. There is no period dividing these. I long ago discovered that I could make a bed and sweep a room for His sake, as surely as I could speak a word for Him.

      A New Graft

      "Faith is the golden thread on which we string for offering,

      Our feeble deeds of poor self-sacrifice;

      Unworthy gifts, yet in His grace, the King

         Accounts them pearls of price."

      12. I know people who suppose it would be almost irreverent to take their domestic bewilderments to Christ. I cannot think what kind of a friend they imagine Him to be, if they are afraid to go to Him with everything.

      The Pocket Measure

      Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.

      13. Although the Lord is gracious and forbearing, and kindly gives me the work to do here and there for Him, He can, when He chooses, get along entirely without any help.

      Three People

      For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory forever.

      14. You may often speak words which spring up, and bear fruit that reaches up to God; though you do not know it, and will not, until in heaven you take your crown, and question why there are so many stars.

      Tip Lewis and His Lamp

      Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

      15. The heart must understand that whatever the Lord directs it intends to do, or there is no opening of the door for Him.

      Eighty-Seven

      All that the Lord hath said we will do, and be obedient.

      16. To God, nothing that an immortal soul can say, appears trivial, because he sees the waves of influence which are stirred years ahead by the quiet words.

      Ruth Erskine’s Crosses

      "Words are things of little cost,

      Quickly spoken, quickly lost;

      We forget them, but they stand

      Witnesses at God’s right hand;

      And their testimony bear

      For us, or against us there."

      17. There is no place on the road so dark but that the Bible can light you through, if you try it. When you don’t understand it, there is always Jesus to go to, you know.

      Tip Lewis and His Lamp

      Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

      18. God’s son! To go to Him, saying, Father, what shall I do about this? and, What would you advise as to that?

      Eighty-Seven

      I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

      19. God never promised to compromise with his own, never promised to hear a prayer which began

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