Elizabeth Prentiss famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Mother #Dream #Baby
I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Thinking #Rocks #Feet
We must be wise taskmasters and not require of ourselves what we cannot possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Wise #Soul #Break
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, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Prayer #Work #Simple
The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of Godâ€™s grace.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Grace #Needs #Conscious
If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Beautiful #Loss #Gains
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 will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Mother #Baby #Prayer
The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Home #Fighting #Reality
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give - my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength, nights, days, youth, age - and spend them in Thy service, O my crucified Master, Redeemer, God. Oh, let not these be mere words! Whom have I in the heaven but Thee? And there is no one upon earth that I desire in comparison to Thee. My heart is athirst for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Heart #Night #Giving
To love Christ more, is the deepest need, the constant cry of my soul Out in the woods and on my bed and out driving, when I am happy and busy, and when I am sad and idle, the whisper keeps going up for more love, more love, more love!
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Soul #Bed #Needs
Go home and say to yourself, â€˜I am a wayward, foolish child. But He loves me! I have disobeyed and grieved Him ten thousand times. But He loves me! I have lost faith in some of my dearest friends and am very desolate. But He loves me! I do not love Him, I am even angry with Him! But He loves me!
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Children #Home #Foolish
No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.
-- Elizabeth Prentiss

#Truth #Said #Relation

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