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Mary Gardiner Brainard
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“I see not a step before me as I tread on another year; But I ’ve left the Past in God’s keeping,—the Future His mercy shall clear; And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.”
Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not knowing, published in The Congregationalist, March 1869, and set to music as a hymn by Philip Paul Bliss in the 1870s. Thomas Corts, Glimpses of Christian History Presents More Stories: Blessed Bliss, 2007.
“I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light.”
Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not knowing (1869).
“That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a heaven of stars.”
Mary Gardiner Brainard (1837–1905) said by 1905 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ownership, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).