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I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
— Samuel Rutherford
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
— Samuel Rutherford
Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
— Samuel Rutherford
I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.
— Samuel Rutherford
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
— Samuel Rutherford
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
— Samuel Rutherford
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
— Samuel Rutherford
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
— Samuel Rutherford
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
— Samuel Rutherford
When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
— Samuel Rutherford
In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
— Samuel Rutherford
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
— Samuel Rutherford
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
— Samuel Rutherford
Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.
— Samuel Rutherford
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
— Samuel Rutherford
If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.
— Samuel Rutherford
Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.
— Samuel Rutherford
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
— Samuel Rutherford
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
— Samuel Rutherford
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
— Samuel Rutherford
Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
— Samuel Rutherford
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!
— Samuel Rutherford
It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.
— Samuel Rutherford
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
— Samuel Rutherford
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[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
— Samuel Rutherford
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
— Samuel Rutherford
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
— Samuel Rutherford
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
— Samuel Rutherford
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
— Samuel Rutherford
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
— Samuel Rutherford
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
— Samuel Rutherford
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
— Samuel Rutherford
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
— Samuel Rutherford
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.
— Samuel Rutherford
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
— Samuel Rutherford
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
— Samuel Rutherford
Christ has no velvet crosses.
— Samuel Rutherford
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
— Samuel Rutherford
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
— Samuel Rutherford
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
— Samuel Rutherford
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
— Samuel Rutherford
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.
— Samuel Rutherford
He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
— Samuel Rutherford
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
— Samuel Rutherford
Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.
— Samuel Rutherford
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.
— Samuel Rutherford
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms.
— Samuel Rutherford
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
— Samuel Rutherford
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
Build your nest in no tree here ... for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
— Samuel Rutherford
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.
— Samuel Rutherford
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
— Samuel Rutherford
No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord
— Samuel Rutherford
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
— Samuel Rutherford
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.
— Samuel Rutherford
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
— Samuel Rutherford
I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
— Samuel Rutherford
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
— Samuel Rutherford
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
— Samuel Rutherford
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[M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.
— Samuel Rutherford
Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.
— Samuel Rutherford
How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
— Samuel Rutherford
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
— Samuel Rutherford
every man's Judgment cometh from the Lord. And be glad that it is so, for Christ is the clerk of your process, and will see that all go right; and
— Samuel Rutherford
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford