Samuel Rutherford: Likeness

Samuel Rutherford was Scottish Reformed theologian. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

Samuel Rutherford: 72 quotes3 likes

“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.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 53.

“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.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 270.

“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.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 530.

“Like a fool as I was, I suffered my sun to be high in the heavens and near afternoon before I ever took the gate by the end.”

Samuel Rutherford

Sketch of Life of Samuel Rutherford (Andrew Bonar)