Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to … - Elizabeth Prentiss

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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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!

Christ, Depth, Heaven, Height, Sea, Unfathomed

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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!

Abode, Baby, Health, Kingly, Mother, Prayer

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.

Adorn, Diamonds, Feet, Flower, Naked, Sweetest

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

Children, God, Son, Suffering, Testify

The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God’s grace.

Conscious, Grace, Live, Needs, Overwhelming

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Comforting, Cost, Price, Soul, Souls, Wish

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