Samuel Rutherford
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.Collection: Perfect
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.Collection: Summer
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.Collection: Jesus
Heaven is a house full of miracles; yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.Collection: House
It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.Collection: Comfort
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.Collection: Flower
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Heaven
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flowerCollection: Flower
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!.Collection: Sweet
Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.Collection: Love
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.Collection: Rose
Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.Collection: Hands
He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.Collection: Noble
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.Collection: Courage
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.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Jesus
Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Thinking
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.Collection: Jesus
Christ has no velvet crosses.Collection: Velvet
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.Collection: Christian
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.Collection: Sweet
Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.Collection: Heart
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.Collection: Wings
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.Collection: Suffering
My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.Collection: Giving
Grace grows best in winter.Collection: Winter
Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.Collection: Idols
When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.Collection: Heaven
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.Collection: Jesus
Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.Collection: Time
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. ... “For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God,” ergo, shipwreck, losses, &c., work together for the good of them that love God: hence I infer, that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses, or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.Collection: Country
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.Collection: Forgiveness
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.Collection: Letting Go
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Men
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancyCollection: Infancy Is
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.Collection: Strong
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.Collection: Self
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.Collection: Strong
I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my LordCollection: Eye
How soon would faith freeze without a cross!Collection: Crosses
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.Collection: Heaven
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faithCollection: Faith
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.Collection: Hands
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.Collection: Idols
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.Collection: Blessed