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Samuel Rutherford Quotes
The sharpest, most searching lines from Samuel Rutherford, drawn straight from the Puritan Paperbacks. Filter by theme, or browse the whole collection.
“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.”
“Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.”
“When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.”
“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 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.”
“There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.”
“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.”
“No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.”
“Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.”
“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 no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.”
“I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul, they lose nothing who gain Christ.”
“Ye have lost a child; nay, she is not lost to you, who is found in Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star which, going out of sight, does not die and vanish, but shines in another hemisphere.”
“Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it.”
“I rejoice in the hope of that glory to be revealed, for it is no uncertain glory that we look for. Our salvation is fastened with God's own hand, and with Christ's own strength, to the strong stake of God's unchangeable nature.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.”
“There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst.”
“Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God. It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.”
“Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion.”
“If you should see a man shut up in a closed room, idolizing a set of lamps and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps.”
“There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.”
“Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.”