Frances

“I cry, ‘Down with me; down, down with all the excellency of the world; and up, up with Christ!”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Letters of Samuel Rutherford: Excerpts from Thirty Important Letters

“In the meantime, I am pained with His love, because I want real possession. When Christ cometh, He stayeth not long. But certainly the blowing of His breath upon a poor soul is heaven upon earth; and when the wind turneth into the north, and He goeth away, I die, till the wind change into the west, and he visit his prisoner. But He holdeth me not often at His door. I am richly repaid for suffering for Him.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Letters of Samuel Rutherford: Excerpts from Thirty Important Letters

“It doesn't matter much what happens to us. The one thing that matters is how we meet what happens. Limitations, frustrations-they can't cast the smallest handful of dust on the glory of God. So let us be of good courage. He is leading us through and on, and as for God, His way is perfect.”
― Amy Carmichael, Candles in the Dark

“All, all for evermore to be Christ’s! What further trials are before me I know not, but I know that Christ will have a saved soul of me, over on the other side of the water, on the yonder side of crosses, and beyond men’s wrongs.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Letters of Samuel Rutherford: Excerpts from Thirty Important Letters