Quote#Nature
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding…
Quote bySamuel Rutherford · 1600–1661
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 253..
English (original)
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
— Samuel Rutherford
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