Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work. - Samuel Rutherford

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

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 furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.

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.