Top 15 Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

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

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.