Captivity Quotes by Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— 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

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— Elizabeth Prentiss

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

— 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