Elizabeth Payson Prentiss Quotes

#1. It will not hurt either of you as long as you have health. And if that fails, God will provide for you in some way," said her father. "He is rich, and could give you more now if He saw that it would be good for you. Never forget that.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#2. On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother ... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#3. I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#4. Go home and say to yourself, 'I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#5. Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#6. We only know ourselves and what we really are when the force of circumstances brings us out.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#7. The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#8. I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to do that. I want Him
but I want to have my own way, too. I want to walk humbly and softly before Him and I want to go where I shall be admired and applauded. To whom shall I yield? To God? Or to myself?

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#9. Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#10. One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#11. Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him
this is all!

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#12. But if God does not give us children, knowing as He does how thankful we should be for them, it is surely because He has some good reason for it. Perhaps there are now in the world some fatherless and motherless little ones that He is saving for us till we can afford to take them

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#13. Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#14. A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#15. Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#16. If God chooses quite another lot for you, you may be sure that He sees that you need something totally different from what you want.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss