Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

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“I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, ...”
— Samuel Rutherford

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”
— Samuel Rutherford