“With gratitude I remember in the way of holiness, which God opened before me, how gently He taught me the habit of trusting Christ for everything. At first it was a mighty effort to leave all to Him. In the important emergencies of life, self would seek to assert itself at first, and it was subdued at times only after a violent struggle. But in this blessed school of God, I have learned simply and naturally, as the helpless child clings to the parent, without first trying its own strength, so simply, without previous self-effort and failure, habitually to trust Jesus in everything. It would now seem to me strange to have an anxious care upon any subject whatever. I have learned to be very bold in asking for great things; but when I have asked my largest, I continually find my Father in heaven doing “exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
Robert Pearsall Smith (1827-1898) in Walk in the light: Words of Counsel (London: Morgan & Scott, 1873) 71-72.