Samuel Rutherford Quote of the Day

"I entreat you, Madam, let me have two lines from you concerning your present condition. I know ye are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, ye might be afraid, because then your way should not be so like the way that (our Lord said) leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if ye knew what were before you, or if ye saw but some glances of it, ye would with gladness swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of a desire to be at land."

–February 1, 1630 letter from S. R. to Lady Kenmure, after she had left his parish.