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Quotes by Samuel Rutherford

Alas, we but chase feathers flying in the air, and tire our own spirits, for the froth and over-gilded clay of a dying life. One sight of what my Lord hath let me see within this short time, is worth a world of worlds.
– Samuel Rutherford
Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.
– Samuel Rutherford
Every man thinketh he is rich enough in grace, till he take out his purse, and... then he findeth it but poor and light in the day of a heavy trial. I found I had not enough to bear my expenses, and should have fainted, if want and penury had not chased me to the storehouse of all.
– Samuel Rutherford
Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy.
– Samuel Rutherford
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!
– Samuel Rutherford
I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my faith shall out-watch all this winter-night, and not nod or slumber, till my Lord's summer-day dawn upon me.
– 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.
– Samuel Rutherford
Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
– Samuel Rutherford
Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!
– Samuel Rutherford
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.
– Samuel Rutherford
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.
– Samuel Rutherford
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
– Samuel Rutherford
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
– Samuel Rutherford
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.
– Samuel Rutherford
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
– Samuel Rutherford
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
– Samuel Rutherford