Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths.…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.”

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul Out in the woods and on my bed…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money,…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“I see that if I would be happy in God, I must give Him all. And there is a wicked reluctance to…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“God never places us in any position in which we can not grow. We may fancy that He does. We may fear…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“Yes, every act of obedience is an act of worship." he said. "But why don't we learn that sooner? Why do we…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights,…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!”

— Elizabeth Prentiss

“Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!”

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of…

— Elizabeth Prentiss

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give - my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities,…

— Elizabeth Prentiss