Quotes from Samuel Rutherford

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.

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.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

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

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.

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.

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

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.

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.

Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.