Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

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

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

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.

In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

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

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

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

Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.

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.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

Christ has no velvet crosses.

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

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

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

After every storm, there comes clear open skies.