I find that when the saints are under trial and well humbled, little sins raise great cries in the conscience; but in prosperity, conscience is a pope that gives dispensations and great latitude to our hearts. The cross is therefore as needful as the crown is glorious.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Believe God’s Word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Put off a sin or a piece of a sin every day.
– Samuel Rutherford –
I look not to win away my home without wounds and blood.
– Samuel Rutherford –
I have been helped … by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself.
– Samuel Rutherford –
1600-1661
Acquaint yourself with Christ’s love, and ye shall not miss to find new goldmines and treasures in Christ.
– Samuel Rutherford –
from The Loveliness of Christ
To live on Christ’s love is a king’s life.
– Samuel Rutherford –
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
– Samuel Rutherford –
1600-1661