Samuel Rutherford Quotes

I see grace growth best in winter

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 furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

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

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

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

ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow

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.

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

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

In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.

When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore ot glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, " If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."

Like a fool as I was , I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.

Last words: "I bless the Lord that he gave me counsel."