We must be wise task-masters, and not require of ourselves … - Elizabeth Prentiss

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We must be wise task-masters, and not require of ourselves what we can not possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our soul, wound up to an unnatural tension, will break.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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About Elizabeth Prentiss

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 October 1818 – 13 August 1878) was an author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869).

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

You cannot will to possess the spirit of Christ; that must come as His gift, but you can choose to study His life, and to imitate it.

I thought that prattling boys and girls
Would fill this empty room;
That my rich heart would gather flowers
From childhood's opening bloom.<p>One child and two green graves are mine,
This is God's gift to me;
A bleeding, fainting, broken heart—
This is my gift to Thee.

We must be wise task-masters, and not require of ourselves what we can not possibly perform. Recreation we must have. Otherwise, the strings of our s… - Elizabeth Prentiss

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