"Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely……" — Samuel Rutherford
"Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship."
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64 Quotes by Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford has 64 quotes on this site.
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Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
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I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten…
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But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals…
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The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
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If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would…
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I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it…
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Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy
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More Bird Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
— Neil Armstrong
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What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and…
— David Attenborough
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Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone…
— David Attenborough
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Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know…
— David Attenborough
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I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime…
— John James Audubon
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
— Abu Bakr
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If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that…
— Douglas Adams
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What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,…
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California…
— Roseanne Barr
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
— James M. Barrie
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I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.
— Lynda Barry
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A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
— Drew Barrymore
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