I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signif… - Elizabeth Prentiss

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I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?

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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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It is a religion of principle that God wants from us, not one of mere feeling.
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No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.
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The longer I live the more conscious I am of human frailty, and of the constant, overwhelming need we all have of God's grace.
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