Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford
Rev Prof Samuel Rutherfordwas a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionTheologian
may his-love christ
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
adversity half christ
Well's them who are under crosses, and Christ says to them, "Half Mine."
christian patience soul
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
heaven miles
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
courage sea land
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.
lying heaven ease
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
courage wind venture
My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.
lying thinking pearls
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.
wings bird tree
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.
christian blessing race
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.
heart compass steers
Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.
love true-love way
Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.
jesus heart heaven
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
reformation
Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation.