Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Winter

  Samuel Rutherford (1885). “Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished”

• 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 Rutherford

  Summer, Children, Flower

  Samuel Rutherford (1765). “Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters”, p.56

• I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Dream, Flower

• 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.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Humility, Exercise

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.277, 1895.

• The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

  Samuel Rutherford

  Flower, Joy, Branches

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