Samuel Rutherford Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

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.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

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

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

Grace grows best in winter.

Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

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

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

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.

Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.

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.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.

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

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

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.