Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford
Rev Prof Samuel Rutherfordwas a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
nature night open winter
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.
murmuring gains christ
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
flower humility winter
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
adversity winter water
I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God's master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.
prayer errands praying
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
feet may praying
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.
hands heaven covenant
If so be that freewill were our tutor, and we had our heaven in our own keeping, then we would lose all. But because we have Christ for our tutor, and He has our heaven in His hand, therefore the covenant it must be perpetual.
fire mold hammers
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
idols heaven together
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.
miracle heaven earth
When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.
wine secret looks
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
crosses freeze
How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
time lord creator
Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.
christian home night
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.