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Heaven is a house full of miracles yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

Samuel Rutherford

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Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
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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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Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
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I have been benefited by praying for others for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
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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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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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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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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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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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Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
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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 bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
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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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I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
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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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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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If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
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The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
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