Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Samuel Rutherford - Page 2

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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.
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 leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.
When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. — © Samuel Rutherford
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ. — © Samuel Rutherford
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.
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.
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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.
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel.
I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.
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.
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 of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.
There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
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.
I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!
He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.
After every storm, there comes clear open skies.
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ. — © Samuel Rutherford
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
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.
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.
I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.
Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.
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.
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower — © Samuel Rutherford
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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!.
It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.
Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.
Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house.
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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