You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
Samuel Rutherford
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby
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Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.
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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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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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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
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When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
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Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
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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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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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In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
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Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.
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It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.
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