Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

“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 ...”

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

“There is much in our Lord's pantry that will satisfy his children, and much wine in his cellar that will quench all their thirst. Hunger for him until he fills you. He is pleased with the importuni...”

“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 o...”

“If your Lord calls you to suffering, do not be dismayed, for He will provide a deeper portion of Christ in your suffering. The softest pillow will be placed under your head though you must set your...”

“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 th...”

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

“...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, i...”

“The saints are little pieces of mystical Christ, sick of love for union. The wife of youth, that wants her husband some years, and expects he shall return to her from oversea lands, is often on the...”

“Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.”

“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...”

“I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.”

“Like a fool as I was , I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.”

“I see grace growth best in winter”

“I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning”

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

“The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower”

“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”

“The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.”

“Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.”