Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences.
Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
I urge you, a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before Therefore, dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him.
In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus sails by.
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy father's image in us and make us ready for glory.
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.
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.
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
[Samuel Rutherford]
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