The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Samuel RutherfordKeep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
Samuel RutherfordHe who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
Samuel RutherfordTo believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith
Samuel RutherfordI 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.
Samuel Rutherford