Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss was an American author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the religious novel Stepping Heavenward . Her writings enjoyed renewed popularity in the late 20th century. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. October 1818 – 13. August 1878
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Famous Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

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

Elizabeth Prentiss

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 589.

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

Elizabeth Prentiss

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 119.

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

Elizabeth Prentiss

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 568.

Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes

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

Elizabeth Prentiss

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 250.

“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.”

Elizabeth Prentiss

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 603.

“Cheerfully and gratefully I lay myself and all I am or own at the feet of Him who redeemed me with His precious blood, engaging to follow Him, bearing the cross He lays upon me.”

Elizabeth Prentiss

This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.

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