"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."

God, Life, Nothing, Will

21

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."

Exlpore more God quotes

"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God, Work

"To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

God,

"An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

God, Lie, Being, Reason

"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

God, Atheism, Philosophy

"The gods are watching, but idly, yawning."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

God, Gods

"God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

"Reason is God's crowning gift to man."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

God, Man, Reason

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

God,

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

God, Eyes

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

God, Humor, Performance, Being

Explore more quotes by Samuel Rutherford

"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."

God,

"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."

Lying, Salvation, Security

"Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself."

God, Life, Nothing, Will

"To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith."

Faith, Friend, Act, Christ

"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."

Faith, Bed, Sleep

"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."

Grace, Infinite

"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."

God, Children, Flowers, Summer

"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."

Christ, Night, Prison

"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."

Bed, Heaven, Lying, Will

"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."

Affliction,