"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God..." ~Samuel Rutherford

To all you who have lost a child have peace in Him.

"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

"Duties are ours, events are the Lord's..." ~Samuel Rutherford

“Do not focus your thoughts among the confused wheels of secondary causes, as -'O if this had been, this had not followed!' Look up to the master motion of the first wheel. In building, we see hewn stones and timbers under hammers and axes, yet the house in this beauty we do not see at the present, but it is in the mind of this builder. We also see unbroken clods, furrows, and stones, but we do not see the summer lilies, roses, and the beauty of a garden. Even so we do not presently see the outcome of God's decrees with his blessed purpose. It is hard to believe when his purpose is hidden and under the ground. Providence has a thousand keys to deliver his own even when all hope is gone. Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for him, and lay Christ's part on himself and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.”
                                                            ~Samuel Rutherford

“Let not Christ have a faint and feeble soldier of you. Acquaint yourself with prayer. Make Christ your Captain and your Armour. Make conscience of sinning when no eye seeth you.”
~Samuel Rutherford- 'The Prison Sayings of Samuel Rutherford'

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
~Samuel Rutherford

Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit? ~John Owen