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Grace grows best in winter.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
Author
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Theologian
Samuel Rutherfoord
Winter
Grace
Grows
Best

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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.
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How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
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The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
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There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.
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It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
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It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
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There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
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We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
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I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
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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.
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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 wines.
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The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
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The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
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Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
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Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
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They lose nothing who gain Christ.
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The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
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My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
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Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ she is not sent away, but only sent before like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.
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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.
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