People ask me how it happens that my children are all so promptly obedient and so happy. As if it chanced that some parents have such children or chanced that some have not! I am afraid it is only too true, as someone has remarked, that "this is the age of obedient parents! " What then will be the future of their children? How can they yield to God who have never been taught to yield to human authority? And how well fitted will they be to rule their own households who have never learned to rule themselves? . Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
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  3. There is more for us to gain through love than hate. - Suzy Kassem
  4. I can safely say, on the authority of all that is revealed in the Word of God, that any man or woman on this earth who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven. - A.W. Tozer
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More Quotes By Elizabeth Payson Prentiss
  1. But you will imagine that it is best that He should at once enable you to see clearly. If it is, you may be sure He will do it. He never makes mistakes. But He often deals far differently with His disciples. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He...
  2. Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.
  3. She says I shall now have one mouth the more to fill and two feet the more to shoe, more disturbed nights, more laborious days, and less leisure or visiting, reading, music, and drawing. Well! This is one side of the story, to be sure,...
  4. This is the testimony of all the good books, sermons, hymns, and memoirs I read--that God's ways are infinitely perfect; that we are to love Him for what He is and therefore equally as much when He afflicts as when He prospers us; that there...
  5. 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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