Top 30 Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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!
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#5. 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.
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#6. 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
#7. Joy emerges from sorrow, and soars on wings far more beautiful than any earthly analogy can paint.
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#9. Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
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#10. Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.
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#11. Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.
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#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
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#13. 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
#14. 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.
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#15. It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.
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#16. 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?
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#17. If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
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#18. 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.
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#19. Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.
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#20. 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
#21. 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.
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#23. Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
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#25. 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.
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#27. 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!
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#29. On the whole, there is nobody like one's own mother ... I wonder if, after all, mothers are not the best friends there are!
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#30. 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
