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.
Samuel RutherfordRead
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.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the value of pursuing spiritual salvation despite the challenges and dangers along the way.
Samuel Rutherford's quote highlights the imperative of striving for spiritual fulfillment and salvation, symbolized as buying a valuable field. It warns that the journey towards eternal glory is fraught with difficulties, as many others falter due to complacency and a false sense of security. The quote encourages a committed and diligent pursuit of virtue and enlightenment, even when the path ahead seems arduous.
Themes
SalvationPursuitSpiritualityChallengesGlory
In practice
Example use cases
During a motivational speech about personal growth and spirituality.
More from Samuel Rutherford
All quotes →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.
Samuel RutherfordRead
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, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.
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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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You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
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Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
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