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

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

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

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

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

- 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 …

- 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!

- 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…

- Elizabeth Prentiss