171 Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.

If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.

Arbitrary governing hath no alliance with God.

The thorn is one of the most cursed and angryand crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.

The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.

God chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.

What is warranted by the direction of nature’s light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.