Christ Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

They lose nothing who gain Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

— Samuel Rutherford

I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!

— Samuel Rutherford

Christ has no velvet crosses.

— Samuel Rutherford

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

— Samuel Rutherford

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

— Samuel Rutherford

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

— Samuel Rutherford

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.

— Samuel Rutherford

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."

— Samuel Rutherford

The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

— Samuel Rutherford

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

— Samuel Rutherford

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

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

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath…

— Samuel Rutherford

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part…

— Samuel Rutherford

O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be…

— Samuel Rutherford

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample…

— Samuel Rutherford

The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a…

— Samuel Rutherford

Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but…

— Samuel Rutherford

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's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed…

— Samuel Rutherford

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

I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so…

— Samuel Rutherford

I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we…

— Samuel Rutherford

“...whether God come to his children with a rod or a crown, if he come himself with it, it is well. Welcome,…

— Samuel Rutherford

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

I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I…

— Samuel Rutherford

I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there…

— Samuel Rutherford

I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven;…

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

— Samuel Rutherford

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord

— Samuel Rutherford

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all.…

— Samuel Rutherford