Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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

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."

I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow

I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.

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.