Julia Reffner

“Nay then, but let me give to Him not what I value least, but what I prize and delight in most.”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“Yes, every act of obedience is an act of worship." he said. "But why don't we learn that sooner? Why do we waste our lives before we learn how to live?" "I am sure," he returned, "that we do not learn as fast as we are willing to learn. God does not force instruction upon us, but when we say as Luther did, 'More light, Lord, more light,' the light comes." I questioned myself after he had gone as to whether this could be true of me. Is there not in my heart some secret reluctance to know the truth lest that knowledge should call to a higher and a holier life than I have yet tried?”
― Elizabeth Prentiss, Stepping Heavenward

“Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.”
― Samuel Rutherford

“A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.”
― Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers