171 Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord.

When we shall come home and enter to the possession of our Brother’s fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, and when we shall look back to pains and sufferings; then shall we see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory; and that our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome home to heaven.

She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul – they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven’s door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-.

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.

Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.

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