The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

- Samuel Rutherford

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

- Samuel Rutherford

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

- Samuel Rutherford

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.

- Samuel Rutherford

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

- Samuel Rutherford

Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

- Samuel Rutherford

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 saileth by.

- Samuel Rutherford

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

- Samuel Rutherford

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... Ther…

- Samuel Rutherford