Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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• Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
• Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
• I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
• But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your…
• The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and…
• After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
• If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we…
• I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; you must have…
• Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
• Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that…
• Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy
• Grace grows best in winter.
• Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.
• Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
• Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our…
• Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
• Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
• My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
• 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…

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