Quotes from Samuel Rutherford
The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with weeping: we are waiting when Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, and shall come and wipe the old man's face.
— Samuel Rutherford
His cross is the sweetest burden that ever I bare: it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbour.
— Samuel Rutherford
The thorn is one of the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.
— Samuel Rutherford
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
Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— Samuel Rutherford
If you were not strangers here, the dogs of the world would not bark at you.
— Samuel Rutherford
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.
— 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
— Samuel Rutherford
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
— Samuel Rutherford
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
— Samuel Rutherford
Our best fare here is hunger.
— Samuel Rutherford