"We are as near to heaven as we……" — Samuel Rutherford
"We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world."
—
Samuel Rutherford
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
64 Quotes by Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford has 64 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
-
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
-
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten…
-
But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals…
-
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest…
-
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
-
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
-
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would…
-
I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity…
-
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
-
Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it…
-
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy
See all 64 quotes by Samuel Rutherford »
More Far Quotes
This quote is filed under Far Quotes,
one of 10,746 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
— Hannah Arendt
-
I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
-
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different,…
— Dido Armstrong
-
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for…
— Neil Armstrong
-
Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself…
— Johann Arndt
-
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
-
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as…
— Mary Kay Ash
-
As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.
— Bashar al-Assad
-
Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all…
— Nancy Astor
-
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
-
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of…
— David Attenborough
See all 10,746 Far Quotes »
