“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way.” — Elizabeth Prentiss | V2Melody

“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, I am the way.”

Finding present consolation in faith rather than postponing hope until the end · Religious prose, commonly attributed

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Elizabeth Prentiss

About Elizabeth Prentiss

Elizabeth Prentiss

26 October 1818–13 August 1878

Elizabeth Prentiss, born Elizabeth Payson on 26 October 1818 in Portland, Maine, and dead on 13 August 1878 in Dorset, Vermont, belonged to that important company of nineteenth-century American women whose literary influence was felt most deeply in homes, churches, and private devotional reading rather than in the…

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“I feel like a ball that now is tossed to Sorrow and tossed back by Sorrow to Joy.”

Capturing the rapid alternation between grief and happiness in lived experience · Letter to Miss Eliza A. Warner, 26 October 1868

“Never be afraid of tears. They are the natural and proper expression of grief.”

Treating open sorrow as a healthy and honest human response · Religious prose, commonly attributed

“We can not drain this bitter cup at one draught and then go on our way as though it had never been.”

Acknowledging that grief cannot simply be completed and left behind · Letter to her youngest brother, 1849