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.
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now. - Elizabeth Prentiss
The question is not whether you ever gave yourself to God, but whether you are His now.
- Elizabeth Prentiss
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, an… - Elizabeth Prentiss
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, an…
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, str… - 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, str…
Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea! - 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 unfathomed sea!
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls. - Elizabeth Prentiss
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diam… - Elizabeth Prentiss
The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diam…
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them. - Elizabeth Prentiss
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
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 … - Elizabeth Prentiss
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 …
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… - Elizabeth Prentiss
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…
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