Hannah Whitall Smith

Wherever there has been a faithful following of the Lord in a consecrated soul, several things have sooner or later followed.

• Meekness and quietness; 
• a submissive acceptance of the will of God;
• pliability in the hands of God;
• sweetness under provocation, calmness in the midst of turmoil and bustle;
• a yielding to the wishes of others and an insensibility to slights and affronts;
• absence of worry or anxiety;
• deliverance from care and fear.

God's glory and the welfare of His creatures become the absorbing delight of the soul.
(From The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life by Hannah Whitall Smith, found in, Flowers Along the Path by Esther Carls Dodgen, p. 127)
25 September 2015