Samuel Rutherford - Christ Quotes

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To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith

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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 funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.

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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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I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

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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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Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

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Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.

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

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There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

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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.

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The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.

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Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.

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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.

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There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

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Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

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He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.

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If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

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

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

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

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