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
murmuring gains christ
They lose nothing who gain Christ.
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.
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.
grief land swim
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.
fellowship christ wounds
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
errands made
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
velvet christ crosses
Christ has no velvet crosses.
sick house miracle
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.
heaven steps done
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
wind roots zion
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
devil saint faith-and-patience
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
noble christ buyers
He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.