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Samuel Rutherford QUOTES

Samuel Rutherford QUOTES

101 " Venture through the thick of all things after Christ, and lose not your Master, Christ, in the throng of this great market. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

102 " Our best fare here is hunger. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

103 " I verily judge, we know not how much may be had in this life: there is yet something beyond all we see, that seeking would light upon. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

104 " God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

105 " am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

106 " I am just like a man who hath nothing to pay his thousands of debt; all that can be gotten of him, is to seize upon his person. Except Christ would seize upon myself, and make the readiest payment that can be of my heart and love to Himself, I have no other thing to give Him. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

107 " Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

108 " Faith is exceeding charitable, and believeth no evil of God. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

109 " dare avouch46 to all that know God, that the saints know not the length and largeness of the sweet earnest,47 and of the sweet green sheaves before the harvest, that might be had on this side of the water, if we should take more pains: and that we all go to heaven with less earnest and lighter purses of the hoped for sum than otherwise we might do, if we took more pains to win further in upon Christ in this pilgrimage of our absence from Him. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

110 " Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

111 " The disciples are physicians of no value to a soul crying, and not heard of Christ. Oh! Moses is a meek man, David a sweet singer, Job and his experience profitable, the apostles God’s instruments, the Virgin Mary is full of grace, the glorified desire the church to be delivered; but they are all nothing to Jesus Christ. There is more in a piece of a corner of Christ’s heart (to speak so) than in millions of worlds of angels and created comforts, when the conscience hath gotten a back-throw with the hand of the Almighty. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Trial and Triumph of Faith

112 " Christ hath come, and run away to heaven with my heart and my love, so that neither heart nor love is mine. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

113 " [T]hose who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

114 " ...do not faint; the wicked may hold the bitter cup to your head, but God mixeth it, and there is no poison in it. They strike, but God moves the rod; Shimei curseth, but it is because the Lord bids him. "

― Samuel Rutherford

115 " Go on, and faint not, something of yours is in heaven, beside the flesh of your exalted Saviour, and ye go on after your own. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

116 " When I look over beyond the line and beyond death, to the laughing side of the world, I triumph, and ride upon the high places of Jacob: howbeit, otherways I am a faint, deadhearted, cowardly man, oft borne down and hungry in waiting for the marriage supper of the Lamb. Nevertheless, I think it the Lord’s wise love that feeds us with hunger, and makes us fat with wants and desertion. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

117 " urge upon you . . . a nearer communion with Christ and a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn by in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in Him. I despair that ever I shall win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it; therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labour, and take pains for Him, and set by so much time in the day for Him as you can: He will be won with labour. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

118 " I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in that precise way that I lay wait for him; he hath a gate [road] of his own. "

― Samuel Rutherford , Daily Thoughts from Samuel Rutherford (Scottish Heritage Book 2)

119 " Dry wells send us to the fountain. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ

120 " Let not the Lord’s dealings seem harsh, rough or unfatherly, because it is unpleasant. When the Lord’s blessed will bloweth cross your desires, it is best in humility to strike sail to Him and to be willing to be laid any way our Lord pleaseth: it is a point of denial of yourself, to be as if ye had not a will but had made a free disposition of it to God, and had sold it over to Him; and to make use of His will for your own is both true holiness, and your ease and peace. Ye know not what the Lord is working out of this, but ye shall know it hereafter. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Loveliness of Christ