I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Samuel RutherfordI know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.
Samuel RutherfordShow yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
Samuel RutherfordSince He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford