Samuel Rutherford
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Spiritual
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.Collection: Flower
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.Collection: Jesus
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.Collection: Religious
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.Collection: Fire
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Pain
They lose nothing who gain Christ.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Father
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.Collection: Jesus
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Adversity
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.Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Jesus
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.Collection: Jesus
Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.Collection: Tree
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.Collection: May
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.Collection: Christian
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 waysCollection: Jesus
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Soul
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.Collection: Prayer
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.Collection: Summer
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.Collection: Christian
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.Collection: Lying
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.Collection: Night
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.Collection: Wind
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.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Sweet
I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.Collection: Suffering
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.Collection: Kings
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.Collection: Grief
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.Collection: Evil
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.Collection: Errands
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.Collection: Christian
I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!Collection: Christ
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.Collection: God
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Thinking
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.Collection: Heaven
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.Collection: Letting Go
Faith's speculations to the worst and hardest, in point of resolution, are sweet.Collection: Sweet
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.Collection: Desire
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.Collection: Sick
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."Collection: Adversity
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.Collection: Wings
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 LordCollection: Inspiring
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.Collection: Jesus