19 Quotes by Elizabeth Prentiss

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.

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.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

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

Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father’s watching the sheep. Thy mother’s shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

O happy life! life hid with Christ in God! So making me At home and by the wayside and abroad, Alone with Thee.

If the loss of your earthly fortune gains Christ for you, it will be a beautiful loss.

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.