19 Quotes by Elizabeth Prentiss

Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

And it gives me positive personal pain to see heirs of the eternal kingdom, made such by the ignominious death of their Lord, go shrinking and weeping to the full possession of their inheritance.

This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there is no real happiness but in doing and suffering His will; and that this life is but a scene of probation through which we pass to the real life above.

Duty looks more repelling at a distance than when fairly faced and met.

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

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 diamonds.

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

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?