Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

#1. I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

Elizabeth Prentiss

#2. No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#3. Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#4. The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#5. We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#6. If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#7. O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#8. It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#9. Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#10. Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#11. To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul
Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving,
when I am happy and busy,
and when I am sad and idle,
the whisper keeps going up for
more love, more love, more love!

Elizabeth Prentiss

#12. Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

Elizabeth Prentiss

#13. The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.

Elizabeth Prentiss

#14. The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.

Elizabeth Prentiss