Samuel Rutherford: Quotes about Christ

Samuel Rutherford was Scottish Reformed theologian. Explore interesting quotes on christ.
Samuel Rutherford: 72 quotes3 likes

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

“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.”

Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

“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.

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

“I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.

“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.”

Samuel Rutherford

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

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

Samuel Rutherford

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

“Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.”

Samuel Rutherford

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 106.

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

Samuel Rutherford

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