“The worst things of Christ, His reproaches, His cross, are better than Egypt's treasures.”
Source: The Letters of 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!.”
Source: Letters
“I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters
“There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters
“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, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“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.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters
“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.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“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.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“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.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.”
Source: The Trial and Triumph of Faith
“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.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“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.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.”
Source: Letters
“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.”
Source: Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar
“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.”
“You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Religious Letters
“Christ has no velvet crosses.”
“My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.”
“Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford
“Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."”
Source: Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished
“Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.”
Source: Extracts from the Letters of 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.”
Source: Quaint Sermons of Samuel Rutherford: Hitherto Unpublished
“I exhort you and beseech you in the bowels of Christ, faint not, weary not. There is a great necessity of heaven; ye must needs have it: all other things, as houses, lands, children, husband, friends, country, credit, health, wealth, honour, may be wanted ; but heaven is your one thing necessary, the good part that shall not be taken from you. 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, that were slain with security.”
“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.”
“Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford
“There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. 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.”
“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.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford
“To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!”
Source: Letters of the Rev. 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.”
Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition
“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford
“Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.”
Source: Letters of ... Samuel Rutherford, whith biogr. notices of his correspondents, by J. Anderson, and a sketch of his life, &c., by A.A. Bonar
“They lose nothing who gain Christ.”
Source: Joshua redivivus, or Mr Rutherford's letters
“Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.”
“I perceive we postpone all our joys of Christ, till He and we be in our own house above, thinking that there is nothing of it here to be sought or found, but only hope and fair promises; and that Christ will give us nothing here but tears, sadness, crosses; and that we shall never feel the smell of the flowers of that high garden of paradise above, till we come there. Nay, but I find it possible to find young glory, and a young green paradise of joy even here. We dream of hunger in Christ's house, while we are here, although He alloweth feasts to all the bairns within God's household.”
“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.”
Source: Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life
“Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.”
Source: Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford
