Quotes from Elizabeth Prentiss

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

If you could once make up your mind never to undertake more work ... than you can carry on calmly, quietly, without hurry or flurry ... and if the instant you feel yourself growing nervous and ... out of breath, you would stop and take a breath, you would find this simple common-sense rule doing for you what no prayers or tears could ever accomplish.

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