If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
“She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
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 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… — 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
