“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 best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.” MayHomeRealityFightingBattleVocationEarnestnessSeclusion Book:Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'. Source: Stepping Heavenward. By the author of 'The flower of the family'.
“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