Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

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

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.

There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.

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

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

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.

I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.

It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.