Samuel Rutherford quotes - page 3

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. (Samuel Rutherford)
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. View quote
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. View quote
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us. View quote
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I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him. View quote
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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. View quote
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Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished. View quote
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After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. View quote
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No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. View quote
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My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself. View quote
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Christ has no velvet crosses. (Samuel Rutherford)
When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth. View quote
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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. View quote
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Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it. View quote
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Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best. View quote
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You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ. View quote
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But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on. View quote
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We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. View quote
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The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. View quote
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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. View quote
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The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior. (Samuel Rutherford)
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual. View quote
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When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven. View quote
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Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation. View quote
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After every storm, there comes clear open skies. View quote
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