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.
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.
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.
wings bird ships
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
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.
welcome christ crosses
Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.