Samuel Rutherford Quotes

It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.

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.

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.

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

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.

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

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord

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.

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.

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