Olivia’s Reviews > The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss: Author of Stepping heavenward > Status Update

“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.”