All Samuel Rutherford Quotes
- I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence… Absence
- Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know… All
- We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. Far
- I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him. Child
- 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… Cast
- The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his… Abide
- No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. Express
- To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith Act
- I live no more, but Christ liveth in me! Christ
- Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us. File
- 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… Affliction
- 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… Crop
- Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom. Bottom
- When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn… Crowns
- 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… Bird
- You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed. Bed
- Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto… Bird
- After every storm, there comes clear open skies. Clear
- Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree. Cross
- Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or… Any
- 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… All
- 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… Care
- Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight. Believe
- They lose nothing who gain Christ. Christ
- 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… Admits