Elizabeth Prentiss: Quotes about God

Elizabeth Prentiss was American musician, hymnwriter. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Elizabeth Prentiss: 22 quotes 2 likes

“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.

God , Children

“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.”

Elizabeth Prentiss

On the death of her child (1852), reported in The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882), p. 138.

God , Girl , Boy , Flowers

“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.

Life , God , Home , Christ

“Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys — sickness destroying the flavor of them all — did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him — this is all.”

Elizabeth Prentiss

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

Love , God , Study , Learning