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There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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Samuel Rutherfoord
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Nothing
Make
Sweetness
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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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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
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The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
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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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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
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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.
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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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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
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The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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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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