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~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876 We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535 I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
~ Samuel Rutherford Quote