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.
glory grace tried
Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy.
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.
jesus heaven would-be
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
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.
jesus lord pens
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
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.
jesus father thinking
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.
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.
thinking delight this-life
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.
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.