Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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

I see grace growth best in winter

ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own.

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.

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

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