Samuel Rutherford quotes

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. (Samuel Rutherford)
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
I see grace growth best in winter. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. (Samuel Rutherford)
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
How soon would faith freeze without a cross! View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
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. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security. (Samuel Rutherford)
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep. View quote
Samuel Rutherford
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand. View quote
Samuel Rutherford