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
grief land swim
I know you are in grief and heaviness; and if it were not so, you might be afraid, because then your way would not be so like the way that our Lord saith leadeth to the New Jerusalem. Sure I am, if you knew what were before you, or if you saw some glances of it, you would, with gladness, swim through the present floods of sorrow, spreading forth your arms out of desire to be at land.
country disappointment loss
Howbeit your faith seeth but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God; hence I infer that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you.
fire mold hammers
Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.
sleep omnipotence bed
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
self heaven world
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
believe special christ
To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith
flower joy branches
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
fellowship christ wounds
There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.
summer winter night
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.
wings bird ships
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
winter grace grows
Grace grows best in winter.
crosses freeze
How soon would faith freeze without a cross!
stars children sight
Ye have lost a child--nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.
time lord creator
Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.