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
thinking names house
It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.
thinking heaven skins
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
thinking water heaven
I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.
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.
thinking delight this-life
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.
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.
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!
nature night open winter
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open slies.
glory grace tried
Grace tried is better than grace, and it is more than grace, it is glory in its infancy.
full heart lord
Come all crosses, welcome, welcome! so I may get my heart full of my Lord Jesus.
kings men judging
Every man by nature is a freeman born; by nature no man cometh out of the womb under any civil subjection to king, prince, or judge.
wind roots zion
Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.
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.