If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath,… — 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 destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the… — 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
