See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote emphasizes that difficult times will eventually lead to better days.
Samuel Rutherford's quote reminds us that every difficult period in life, represented by winter, night, and storms, is followed by a time of renewal and clarity. It serves as a hopeful reminder that no matter how challenging our circumstances may seem, there will always be a transition to brighter days and clearer skies.
Themes
ChangeHopeRenewalStrugglesPerseverance
In practice
Example use cases
You can use this quote in a motivational speech about overcoming life's challenges.
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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
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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.
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Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
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