SAMUEL RUTHERFORD

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

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

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

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.

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.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

The fountain of power remaineth most eminently in the people; therefore it is unlimited in the people, and bounded and limited in the king, and so less in the king than in the people.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

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 Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.