“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing. Well! This is one side of… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.” — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“A young girl's mother is her natural refuge in every perplexity.” — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus. — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!” — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss. — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now. — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“I am amazed at the patience of my blessed Master and Teacher, but how I love His school!” — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.” — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
