Quotes from Samuel Rutherford

However matters go, it is our happiness to win new ground daily in Christ's love, and to purchase a new piece of it daily, and to add conquest to conquest, till our Lord Jesus and we be so near each other, that Satan shall not draw a straw or a thread betwixt us.

Rutherford held that the people were the "fountain-power" of political authority, and that they were the ones who delegated this authority to the magistrates. He also demonstrated that when such authority was abused, the people had the authority to rescind that delegation.

How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life's lease expired, what have men of the world's glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.

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

You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified, cross is a fruitful tree.

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

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.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.