Samuel Rutherford Quotes

"Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Evil, Will)

"You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Bed, Heaven, Lying, Will)

"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."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Conscience, Evil, Grave, Nothing)

"To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Faith, Friend, Act, Christ)

"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."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: God, Life, Nothing, Will)

"Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Grace, Infinite)

"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."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: God, Children, Flowers, Summer)

"Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Glory, Grace)

"Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Christ, Night, Prison)

"When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Affliction)

"I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: God)

"My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence."
- Samuel Rutherford
(Related: Faith, Bed, Sleep)