Elizabeth Prentiss: Quotes about God

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“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.

“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.

“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.

“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.