“ They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of them; but the Lord began to fulfill their prayers. They had asked for contrition, and He sent them sor… Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too… Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ You cannot prove to yourself that you love God by examining your feelings toward Him. They are indefinite and they fluctuate. But just as far as you obey Him, just so far, depend upon it; you love Him… Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all! Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ 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 af… Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing.Well! This is… Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
“ Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
