Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and… - Elizabeth Prentiss

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Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

Elizabeth Prentiss

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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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Alexander Maclaren Charles Haddon Spurgeon Thérèse of Lisieux Teresa of Ávila John Newton

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Sleep, baby, sleep!
Thy father's watching the sheep.
Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree,
And down drops a little dream for thee.
Sleep, baby, sleep!

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.

It sweetens every bit of work to think that I am doing it in humble, far-off, yet real imitation of Jesus.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls. - Elizabeth Prentiss

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