Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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."

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.

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

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

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.

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.

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.

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