Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

About Samuel Rutherford:

Rev Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.
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When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east, and the world cannot hinder the sun to rise: some are so near heaven, that the everlasting Sun hath begun to make an everlasting day of glory on the...

Samuel Rutherford

We would either have a silent, a soft, a perfumed cross, sugared and honeyed with the consolations of Christ, or we faint; and providence must either brew a cup of gall and wormwood, mastered in the mixing with joy and songs, else we cannot be discip...

Samuel Rutherford

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

Samuel Rutherford

When either grace is turned into painted, but rotten nature, as Arminians do, or into wantonness, as others do, the error to me is of a far other and higher elevation, than opinions touching church government. Tenacious adhering to Antinomian errors,...

Samuel Rutherford

See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.

Samuel Rutherford

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

Samuel Rutherford

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Samuel Rutherford

Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.

Samuel Rutherford

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

Samuel Rutherford

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

Samuel Rutherford

...whether God come to his children with a rod or a crown, if he come himself with it, it is well. Welcome, welcome Jesus, what way soever thou come, if we can get a sight of thee. And sure I am, it is better to be sick, providing Christ come to the ...

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Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity th...

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

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

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

We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.

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

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Samuel Rutherford

Author Bio

  • NameSamuel Rutherford
  • DescriptionScottish Reformed theologian
  • DiedMarch 30, 1661
  • CountryScotland
  • ProfessionTheologian