Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Rev Prof Samuel Rutherford was a Scottish Presbyterian pastor, theologian and author, and one of the Scottish Commissioners to the Westminster Assembly.



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✵ 1600 – 29. March 1661
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Famous Samuel Rutherford Quotes

“Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 95.

“If you should see a man shut up in a closed room, idoizing a set of lamps and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps; and then throw open the shutters to let in the light of heaven.”

Was falsely attributed to Rutherford by Joni Eareckson-Tada in Heaven: Your Real Home http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=cQrPd8R0o0kC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false (2010), p. 259 From Edward Payson in " Momentos of Rev. Edward Payson D.D., ed. Edwin L. Janes (New York: Nelson & Phillips, 1873), p. 87 https://archive.org/details/mementosofrevedw00pays/mode/2up.

The Original version reads: "... for if you should see a man shut up in a close room, idolizing a set of lamps, and rejoicing in their light, and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all his lamps, and then throw open the shutters, to let in the light of heaven."

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Samuel Rutherford / Misattributed

“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.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 51.

“You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 154.

“I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning”

Letter 56 to Lady Kenmure
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

Samuel Rutherford Quotes about Christ

“If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.

“Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 594.

“I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 513.

“I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord”

Letter 225 (to his parishioners) Aberdeen 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

Samuel Rutherford Quotes about God

“Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.

“Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 294.

Samuel Rutherford Quotes

“How soon would faith freeze without a cross!”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.

“ye and I might meet with joy up in the rainbow”

Letter 180 to John Gordon, Laird of Cardoness Castle
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

“There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 105.

“The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.”

Letter 310 to Mistress Taylor's on her son's death
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

“Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 10.

“Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 98.

“Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 171.

“It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 276.

“The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.”

Letter 333
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

“I see grace growth best in winter”

Letter 74 to Lady Culross Aberdeen 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

“My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 93.

“Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.

“The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower”

Letter 185 (to Marion M' Naught) Aberdeen , 1837
Letters of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)

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