Samuel Rutherford
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.Collection: Sleep
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.Collection: Rocks
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-Collection: Devil
Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.Collection: Tree
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.Collection: Faithful
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.Collection: Zion
Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.Collection: Welcome
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.Collection: Lying
After every storm, there comes clear open skies.Collection: Night
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.Collection: Confused
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.Collection: Reformation
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinningCollection: May
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.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Kindness