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Hinds' Feet on High Places
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Hinds' Feet on High Places (1955) (edit title/settings)

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It is the story of a young woman named Much-Afraid, and her journey away from her Fearing family and into the High Places of the Shepherd, guided by her two companions Sorrow and Suffering. It is an allegory of a Christian devotional life. The book takes its title from Habakkuk 3:19, "The Lord... read more

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This book is an allegory of our walk with Christ. I have read it several times over the last 20 years and I found more meaning in different sections at different times. The fist few times I read it, I did not finish it. It was a time that I felt distant from God and could not get to the... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This book is an allegory of our walk with Christ. I have read it several times over the last 20 years and I found more meaning in different sections at different times. The fist few times I read it, I did not finish it. It was a time that I felt distant from God and could not get to the High Places, but later on in life the Lord allowed me to finish the book. I am contemplating reading it again to see if I missed anything. Of my expansive library, this is the only book, other than the Bible, that I have read multiple times. You will find a lot of imagery of scripture, but it does not spiritualize scripture.

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  • “"This further delay is not unto death, but for the glory of God; that the son of God may be glorified."”
    The Shepherd
  • “The Shepherd laughed too. "I love doing preposterous things," he replied. "Why, I don't know anything so exhilerating and delightful than turning weakness into strength and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection."”
  • “"Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy."”
    The Shepherd
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  • When you wear the weed of impatience in your heart instead of the flower Acceptance-with-Joy, you will always find your enemies get an advantage over you.'
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  • Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedient to your will can be transformed.
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  • 'Whenever you are willing to obey me, Much-Afraid, and to follow the path of my choice, you will always be able to hear and recognize my voice, and when you hear it you must always obey. Remember also that it is always safe to obey my voice, even if it seems to call you to paths which look impossible or even crazy.'
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  • All the fairest beauties in the human soul, its greatest victories, and its most splendid achievements are always those which no one else knows anything about, or can only dimly guess at. Every inner response of the human heart to Love and every conquest over self-love is a new flower on the tree of Love.
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  • for it is only up on the High Places of Love that anyone can receive the power to pour themselves down in an utter abandonment of self-giving.'
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  • O Shepherd, to whom should I go? In all the world I have no one but you. Help me to follow you, even though it seems impossible. Help me to trust you as much as I long to love you.'
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  • Love and Pain go together, for a time at least. If you would know Love, you must know pain too.'
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  • if one stops to parley with Pride and listens to his poisonous suggestions and, above all, if he is allowed to lay his grasp upon any part of one, Sorrow becomes unspeakably more unbearable afterwards and anguish of heart has bitterness added to it.
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  • 'Then I learned that I must bear all that others were allowed to do against me and to forgive with no trace of bitterness and to say to thee, 'Behold me--I am thy little handmaiden Bearing-with-Love,' that I may receive power to bring good out of this evil.'
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  • She had to learn that once Pride is listened to, struggle as one may, it is the hardest thing in the world to throw him off.
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This is the story of how Much-Afraid escaped from her Fearing relatives and went with the Shepherd to the High Places where "perfect love casteth out fear."

Table of Contents edit see section history

Preface to the Allegory

Part One: "Weeping may endure for a night"
1. Invititation to the High Places
2. Fearing Invasion
3. Flight in the Night
4. Start for the High Places
5. Encounter with Pride
6. Detour Through the Desert
7. On the Shores of Loneliness
8. On the Old Sea Wall
9. Great Precipice Injuy
10. Ascent of the Precipice Injury.
11.In the Forests of Danger and Tribulation
12. In the Mist
13. In the Valley of Loss
14. The Place of Anointing
15. The Floods
16. Grave on the Mountains

Part Two: "Joy cometh in the morning"
17. Healing Streams
18. Hinds' Feet
19 High Places
20 Return to the Valley

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Hannah Hurnard (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Christian Literature Crusade
Country: United Kingdom
Publication Date: 1955
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 158

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