Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the f — Samuel Rutherford

"You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured."

"When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of Gods wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."

"Grow as a palm-tree on Gods Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast."

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

"I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christs 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."

"In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by."