Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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.

I see grace growth best in winter

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Ye have lost a child — nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

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

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

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

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