“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?” ThinkingMayAgeAsksFeetRocksSafeSecureSelfishnessNot Sure Book:Thoughts Concerning the King Source: Thoughts Concerning the King
“The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.” WalksPathFeetFlowerBearsNakedSoilDiamondSweetestBleeding Book:Aunt Jane's hero Source: Aunt Jane's hero
“Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!” HeartMayLittlesLongTwoSoulBodyCareMotherPrayerRichFeetBabyCostKissingMouthsTrainWelcomeLong LifeNurseryAbodeTenants Author:Elizabeth Prentiss
