Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Giving, Desire, His Love

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.116

• Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Desire, Calm, Conversion

• I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Grief, Land, Swim

• I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Loss, Suffering

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.148

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