Top 100 Samuel Rutherford Quotes
#1. Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#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.
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#10. every man's Judgment cometh from the Lord. And be glad that it is so, for Christ is the clerk of your process, and will see that all go right; and
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#11. 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.
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#12. Beware of license to the flesh, under the coat of liberty of the Spirit; and let none thinke that law-curses, looseth us from all law-obedience; or that Christ hath cryed down the tenne commandments; and that Gospel-liberty is a dispensation for law-loosenesse; or that free grace is a lawless Pope.
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#13. Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
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#14. As our dear Husband, in wooing his [church], received many a black stroke, so his bride, in wooing him, gets many blows, and in this wooing there are strokes upon both sides
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#15. When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.
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#16. I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
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#18. Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.
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#20. When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
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#21. Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
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#22. The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
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#25. 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
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#26. Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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!.
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#29. Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
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#30. Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
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#31. 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.
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#32. To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.
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#33. The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with weeping: we are waiting when Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, and shall come and wipe the old man's face.
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#34. The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
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#35. Christ is a well of life, but who knoweth how deep it is to the bottom? This soul of ours hath love, and cannot but love some fair one; and O, what a fair One, what an only One, what an excellent, lovely, ravishing One is Jesus.
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#36. 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.
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#37. I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
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#38. If you knew particularly what to do, it were not a spiritual exercise.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.
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#41. 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.
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#43. Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
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#44. Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
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#45. If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
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#47. [T]hose 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.
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#49. 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.
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#51. Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
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#52. Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.
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#53. Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
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#57. Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
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#58. Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
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#59. There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
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#61. 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.
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#62. We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
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#63. My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.
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#64. Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
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#65. 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
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#66. 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.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
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#70. 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.
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#71. Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
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#77. 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.
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#78. You must learn to make your evils your great good; and to spin comforts, peace, joy, communion with Christ, out of your troubles, which are Christ's wooers, sent to speak for you from Himself.
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#79. 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.
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#80. What is warranted by the direction of nature's light is warranted by the law of nature, and consequently by a divine law; for who can deny the law of nature to be a divine law?
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#82. Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
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#84. 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.
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#85. Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.
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#86. 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.
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#87. Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.
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#88. [T]he Papist and the Arminian on the one extremity, enthroneth Nature, and extolleth proud merit, and abaseth Christ and free grace. The Familist, libertine, and Antinomian, on a contrary extremity and opposition, turn man into a block, and make him into a mere patient in the way to heaven.
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#89. I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
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#90. I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
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#91. 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.
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#92. The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
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#93. 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.
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#94. He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
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#95. [S]how yourself a Christian, by suffering without murmuring; - in patience possess your soul: they lose nothing who gain Christ.
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#96. There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
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#97. After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
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#98. 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.
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#99. I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.
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#100. Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
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