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Elizabeth Prentiss – prozaiczka i poetka amerykańska.

✵ 26. Październik 1818 – 13. Sierpień 1878
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Elizabeth Prentiss: Cytaty po angielsku

“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!”

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Elizabeth Prentiss

Religious Poems‎ (1873), p. 41.

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

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Elizabeth Prentiss

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

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

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Elizabeth Prentiss

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

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

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Źródło: 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.”

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Elizabeth Prentiss

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

“I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?”

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Elizabeth Prentiss

Źródło: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 538.

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

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Elizabeth Prentiss

Źródło: 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.”

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

“"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." This is the least I can do, and I do it while my heart lies broken and bleeding at His feet.”

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Elizabeth Prentiss

Źródło: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 543.

“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.”

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Źródło: 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.”

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