“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.” — Samuel Rutherford Affliction Copy Share Image
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior. — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work. — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby. — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
“Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.” — Samuel Rutherford Affliction Copy Share Image
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace. — Samuel Rutherford Grace Copy Share Image
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand. — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for… — Samuel Rutherford Child of god Copy Share Image
“[T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden… — Samuel Rutherford Trees Copy Share Image
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in… — Samuel Rutherford Advantage Copy Share Image
You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath… — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here,… — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is… — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots;… — Samuel Rutherford Adversity Copy Share Image
It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and… — Samuel Rutherford Bible Copy Share Image
“We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint;… — Samuel Rutherford Cross Copy Share Image
You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to… — Samuel Rutherford Affliction Copy Share Image
“The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford Affliction Copy Share Image
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it. — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy — Samuel Rutherford Glory Copy Share Image
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford Affliction Copy Share Image
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will. — Samuel Rutherford Evil Copy Share Image
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ. — Samuel Rutherford Christ Copy Share Image
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. — Samuel Rutherford Christian Copy Share Image
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul. — Samuel Rutherford Heaven Copy Share Image
“If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you.” — Samuel Rutherford Bread Copy Share Image
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