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Quotes from The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss — Elizabeth Prentiss

1818–1878 United States

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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.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

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

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

Lay hold on Christ with both your poor, empty hands.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

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 Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

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 Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

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?

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

I thought that prattling boys and girls
Would fill this empty room;
That my rich heart would gather flowers
From childhood's opening bloom.One child and two green graves are mine,
This is God's gift to me;
A bleeding, fainting, broken heart—
This is my gift to Thee.

The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Prentiss (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.