Quotes by : Samuel Rutherford

If your Lord calls you to suffering, do not be dismayed, for He will provide a deeper portion of Christ....

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom....

When the sun riseth first, the beams over-gild the tops of green mountains that look toward the east,....

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

...whether God come to his children with a rod or a crown, if he come himself with it, it is well. Welcome,....

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

The saints are little pieces of mystical Christ, sick of love for union. The wife of youth, that wants....

[S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose....

Dashes and disappointments are not canonical Scripture.

When either grace is turned into painted, but rotten nature, as Arminians do, or into wantonness, as....