Samuel Rutherford Quotes
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It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.
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Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
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See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
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Christ has no velvet crosses.
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Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
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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 purposeth a crop.
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There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.
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You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.
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No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
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Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
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Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.
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I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.
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There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
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Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
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How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
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There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
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Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
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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 a bird, or sails to a ship.
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Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.
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Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
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I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.
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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 judge.
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Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
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Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
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Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.
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The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
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