Samuel Rutherford: Goodness

Samuel Rutherford was Scottish Reformed theologian. Explore interesting quotes on goodness.

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“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”

Samuel Rutherford

Letter 310 to Mistress Taylor's on her son's death
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

“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 furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.

“Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.

“It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.