Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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.

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.

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

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.

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.