171 Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

Faith’s speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.

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.

I know no sweeter way to heaven, than through free grace and hard trials together, and one of these cannot well want another.

Madam, when you are come to the other side of the water, and set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back to the water and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory nearer to the bottom of God’s wisdom, you shall then be forced to say, “If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.

To believe Christ’s cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome home to Heaven.

Heaven is but a company of noble venturers for Christ. They are not worthy of Him who will not take a blow for the Master’s sake.

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ’s joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.