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The Letters of Samuel Rutherford QUOTES

The Letters of Samuel Rutherford QUOTES

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

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

2 " The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

3 " You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

4 " every man's Judgment cometh from the Lord. And be glad that it is so, for Christ is the clerk of your process, and will see that all go right; and "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

5 " If ye were not Christ's wheat, appointed to be bread in His house, He would not grind you. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

6 " It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus, "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

7 " There is none like Him; I would not exchange one smile of His lovely face with kingdoms. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

8 " Woe, woe is me! That sin hath made so many madmen, seeking the fool's paradise, fire under ice, and some good and desirable things, without and apart from Christ. Christ, Christ, nothing but Christ can cool our love's burning languor. O thirsty love! Wilt thou set Christ, the well of life, to thy head, and drink thy fill? Drink and spare not; drink love and be drunken with Christ! Nay, alas! The distance betwixt us and Christ is a death. O, if we were clasped in other's arms! We should never twin again, except heaven twinned and sundered us; and that cannot be. "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

9 " The thorn is one of the most cursed, and angry, and crabbed weeds that the earth yieldeth, and yet out[71] of it springeth the rose, one of the sweetest-smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye, that the earth hath. Your Lord shall make joy and gladness out of your afflictions; for all His roses have a fragrant smell. Wait for the time when His own holy hand shall hold them to your nose; and if ye would have present comfort under the cross, be much in prayer, for at that time your faith kisseth Christ and He kisseth the soul. And "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

10 " [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

11 " As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides "

― Samuel Rutherford , The Letters of Samuel Rutherford