"Verily, we know not what an evil it……" — Samuel Rutherford

"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."

— Samuel Rutherford

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64 Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford has 64 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals…
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
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…
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
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…
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

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More Evil Quotes

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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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