Quotes from Samuel Rutherford
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
- Samuel Rutherford
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
- Samuel Rutherford
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
- Samuel Rutherford
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.
- Samuel Rutherford
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
- Samuel Rutherford
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
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
- Samuel Rutherford
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
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.
- Samuel Rutherford
Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.
- Samuel Rutherford
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
- Samuel Rutherford
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
- Samuel Rutherford