110+ Samuel Rutherford Quotes On Faith, Religion And Education

Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish theologian who was active during the 17th century. He is best known for his book "Lex, Rex" which argued for the divine right of kings. He is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the development of Presbyterianism. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Samuel Rutherford on faith, religion, education.

Top 10 Samuel Rutherford Quotes

1. Believe God's love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
2. They lose nothing who gain Christ.
3. Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
7. In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
8. Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
9. 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.
10. The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Samuel Rutherford Short Quotes

• Grace grows best in winter.
• Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
• You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
• Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.
• Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
• Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
• The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
• I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
• The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
• Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.

Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Faith

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. — Samuel Rutherford

How soon would faith freeze without a cross! — Samuel Rutherford

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's. — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.- — 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

Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet. — Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Love

It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us. — Samuel Rutherford

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world. — Samuel Rutherford

I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love. — Samuel Rutherford

Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way. — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom. — Samuel Rutherford

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love. — Samuel Rutherford

I see Christ's love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul. — Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Suffering

Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven. — Samuel Rutherford

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him. — 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 assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. — Samuel Rutherford

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering. — Samuel Rutherford

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ. — Samuel Rutherford

O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop. — Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Glory

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy — 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

I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup. — Samuel Rutherford

Samuel Rutherford Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Samuel Rutherford

Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere. — Samuel Rutherford

If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy. — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

I urge you a nearer communion with Christ, and a growing communion. There are curtains to be opened in Christ that we have never seen before... Therefore dig deep, and sweat, and labor. Take pains for Him, and set aside as much time as you can in each day for Him. — Samuel Rutherford

After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. — Samuel Rutherford

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth. — Samuel Rutherford

When the supreme magistrate will not execute the judgment of the Lord, those who made him supreme magistrate, under God, who have under God, sovereighn liberty to dispose of crowns and kingdoms, are to execute the judgment of the Lord, when wicked men make the law of God of none effect. — Samuel Rutherford

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them. — Samuel Rutherford

Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us. — Samuel Rutherford

When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw. — Samuel Rutherford

No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord — Samuel Rutherford

You shall by faith sustain yourself and comfort yourself in your Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven, when you are under our Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to bear the reproaches of Christ. — Samuel Rutherford

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him. — Samuel Rutherford

There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet. — Samuel Rutherford

We never with our eyes saw our own soul; yet we have a soul. We see many rivers, but we know not their first spring and original fountain; yet they have a beginning. ...When ye are come to the other side...set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see, in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, 'If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.' It is your part now to believe, and suffer, and hope, and wait on... — Samuel Rutherford

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work. — Samuel Rutherford

Your heart is not the compass that God steers by. — Samuel Rutherford

It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible. — Samuel Rutherford

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ. — 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

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree. — Samuel Rutherford

Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine." — Samuel Rutherford

He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer. — Samuel Rutherford

Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight. — Samuel Rutherford

Oh thrice fools are we who like new-born princes weeping in the cradle know not that there is a kingdom before them then let our Lord's sweet hand square us and hammer us and strike off the knots of pride self-love and world-worship and infidelity that He may make us stones and pillars in His Father's house. — Samuel Rutherford

I know that, as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what. — Samuel Rutherford

Christ has no velvet crosses. — Samuel Rutherford

Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge. — Samuel Rutherford

Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace. — Samuel Rutherford

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise. — Samuel Rutherford

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin. — Samuel Rutherford

After every storm, there comes clear open skies. — Samuel Rutherford

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ. — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent. — Samuel Rutherford

It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house. — Samuel Rutherford

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower — Samuel Rutherford

My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself. — Samuel Rutherford

But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on. — Samuel Rutherford

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast. — Samuel Rutherford

The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul. — Samuel Rutherford

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it. — Samuel Rutherford

No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus. — Samuel Rutherford

Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience. — Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship. — Samuel Rutherford

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best. — Samuel Rutherford

It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry. — Samuel Rutherford

I live no more, but Christ liveth in me! — Samuel Rutherford

The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep. — Samuel Rutherford

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished. — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings. — Samuel Rutherford

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand. — Samuel Rutherford

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short. — Samuel Rutherford

I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord — Samuel Rutherford

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself. — Samuel Rutherford

When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven. — Samuel Rutherford

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ. — Samuel Rutherford

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways — Samuel Rutherford

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. — Samuel Rutherford

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. — Samuel Rutherford

When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines. — 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

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem. — Samuel Rutherford

It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as, O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheel. — Samuel Rutherford

Life Lessons by Samuel Rutherford

1. Samuel Rutherford's life teaches us to be faithful and devoted to God, no matter what life throws at us. He persevered through difficult times and remained devoted to his faith, even when faced with opposition.
2. Rutherford also teaches us to be generous and kind to others, even those who may not reciprocate. He was known for his hospitality and willingness to help those in need.
3. Finally, Rutherford's life teaches us to be humble and recognize that God is in control of our lives. He was known for his humility and trust in God's plan, even when it was difficult to understand.