Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

Affliction of itself does not sanctify any body, but the reverse. I believe in sanctified afflictions, but not in sanctifying afflictions.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.

What is modesty but inverted pride?

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer, and lasts longer, and every step of its descent is like a rib of iron.

True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

Nothing can make you more humble than pain.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

... a modest man. He has every reason to be modest.