Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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

I see grace growth best in winter

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

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.

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.

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.

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.

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!