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Wow. Stepping Heavenward is a novel, and thus good in its own merits. But here are the same lessons and themes, even deeper because they are true from Prentiss’s life.

“Her friends seemed overcome with special wonder that she could have died, so vividly was she associated in their thoughts with life and sunlight.”

“Dying grace is not usually given until it is needed. Death to the disciple of Jesus is only stepping from one room to another and far better room of our Father’s house. And how little all the sorrows of the way will seem to us when we get to our home above!”

“She longed so to live and move and have her being in love to Christ, that nobody could come near her without being straightway reminded of Him.”

🥹❤️ Her husband speaking of her:

“If my pastoral ministrations gave any aid and comfort to other souls, I can truly say it was all largely due to her. And as for myself, my debt of ingratitude to her as a spiritual helper and friend in Christ was, and is, and ever will be, unspeakable. The instant I began to know her, I began to feel the cheering influence and uplifting power of her faith.”

“It is the nicest thing in the world to have a baby. What marvels they are in every respect, but especially in their royal power over us!”

Oh, Elizabeth ❤️

“Never force yourself to write or talk of spiritual things; try rather to get so full of Christ that mention of Him shall be natural and spontaneous.”

“How true and how strange it is that our deepest sorrows spring from our sweetest affections; that as we love much, we suffer much. What instruments of torture our hearts are!”

“Believing in Christ was to her not so much a duty as the deepest joy of her life, heightening all other joys, and she was not satisfied until all her friends shared with her in this experience. She believed it to be attainable by all, founded on a complete submitting of the human to the Divine will in all things, great and small.”

A friend speaking about Elisabeth said,

“Whatever she felt, she felt intensely, and she threw her whole heart and soul into all she said or did; this was one great secret of the power of her personal presence; she felt so keenly herself, she made others feel.” ❤️

“The more time we spend upon our knees, in real communion with God, the better we shall comprehend His wonderful nature.”

“All my trials and sufferings shut me up to the one great Source of peace, and I know there has been need of every one of them.”

Lord, make me more like Elizabeth Prentiss!

“I think that though God justly denies us comfort and support for the future, and bids us lean upon Him *now* and trust Him for the rest, He can give us strength for the endurance of His most terrible chastisements when their hour comes.”

“I have wished all along, beyond anything else, not so much that we might have a pleasant home, pleasant scenery and circumstances, good society and the like, as that we might have good, holy influences about us, and God’s grace and love within us.”

“But let us never rest till we are satisfied with being counted as nothing, that our Savior may be all in all. It seems no small portion of the joy I long for in heaven, to be this self-forgetful in love to Christ.” ❤️

“How I long to be like unto Him into whose image I shall one day be changed when I see Him as He is!”

“Let people pray — earnestly, fervently, not simply morning and night, but the whole day long, making their lives one continued prayer”

“This is one of the comforts of the Christian; God understands him fully whether he can explain his troubles or not.”

“I have felt that if, in the course of my life, I should be the means of leading one soul to the Savior, it would be worth staying in this world for no matter how many years.” ❤️