Samuel Rutherford Quotes

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

Samuel Rutherford
I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.

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It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

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I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.

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The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.

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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.

Samuel Rutherford
Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

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I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.

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Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.

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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

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Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.

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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.

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Ye have lost a child — nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.

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No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

Samuel Rutherford
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.

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It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.

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Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

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Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.

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Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.

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

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Those 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.

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Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own.

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

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I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways

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

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I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.

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My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

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You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.

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There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

Samuel Rutherford