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
jesus portraiture essentials
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
jesus liars promise
Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.
jesus waiting way
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
jesus home journey
If Christ Jesus be the periode, the end and the lodging-home at the end of your journey, there is no fear ye go to a friend . . . ye may look death in the face with joy.
jesus heart heaven
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
jesus suffering hammers
O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman - he purposes a crop.
sweet jesus sadness
My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ's joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.
jesus night cells
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
jesus heart feelings
In our fluctuations of feelings, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
jesus father thinking
The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.
jesus lord pens
No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.
jesus heaven would-be
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.
debt far lend oh others run teach
Oh my debt of praise, how weighty is it, and how far run up! Oh that others would lend me to pay, and teach me to praise!