When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him. — Samuel Rutherford 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 Copy Share Image
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet… — Samuel Rutherford 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 Copy Share Image
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine." — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
“...whether God come to his children with a rod or a crown, if he come himself with it, it is well. Welcome, welcome Jesus,… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing… — Samuel Rutherford 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
There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of… — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love. — Samuel Rutherford Copy Share Image
