Isabella Lilias Trotter (14 July 1853 – 27 August 1928) was a British artist and a Protestant missionary to Algeria….
Ruskin told Trotter that if she would devote herself to her art “she would be the greatest living painter and do things that would be Immortal.”[7]
Although Trotter was drawn to the prospect of a life in art, in May 1879, she decided that she could not give herself “to painting and continue still to ‘seek first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness.'”
Turn your soul’s vision to Jesus and look and look at him, and a strange dimness will come over all that is apart from him, and the Divine “attrait” by which God’s saints are made even in this twentieth century will lay hold of you. For he is worthy to have all there is to be had in the hearts that he has died to win.
Lilias Trotter, ed. Constance E. Padwick, Master of the Impossible: Sayings, for the Most Part in Parable, from the Letters and Journals of Lilias Trotter of Algiers. (New York: Macmillan, 1938), 65–66.
These lines inspired Helen Lemmel to write, “Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus”
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