I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of … - Elizabeth Prentiss

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Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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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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!

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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.

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

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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.

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