The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford
Love
I am so in love with His love that if His love were not in heaven I should be unwilling to go thither.
— Samuel Rutherford
Affliction
The thorn is the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.
— Samuel Rutherford
Prayer
I have benefited by my praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
Christ
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath run away to heaven with it.
— Samuel Rutherford
