The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Samuel Rutherford
How Humility Grows Best – Samuel Rutherford
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
– Samuel Rutherford –
1600-1661
Communion With Christ – Samuel Rutherford
I urge upon you communion with Christ a growing communion. There are curtains to be drawn aside in Christ that we never saw, and new foldings of love in him. I despair that I shall every win to the far end of that love, there are so many plies in it. Therefore dig deep, and sweat and labor and take pains for him, and set by as much time in the day for him as you can. We will be won in the labor
– Samuel Rutherford –
The Price Will Not Come Down – Samuel Rutherford
There are some who would have Christ cheap. They would have Him without the Cross. But the price will not come down.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Go to the Fountain – Samuel Rutherford
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
– Samuel Rutherford –
from The Loveliness of Christ
July 30, 2015
May our Lord’s sweet hand square us and hammer us, and strike off all kinds of pride, self-love, world-worship, and infidelity, so that He can make us stones and pillars in His Father’s house.
– Samuel Rutherford –
Lived 1600-1661
March 17, 2015
Believe God’s word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences.
– Samuel Rutherford –
January 22, 2015
The devil’s war is better than the devil’s peace.
– Samuel Rutherford –
July 24, 2014
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without You, it would be a hell; and if I could be in hell, and have You still, it would be a heaven to me, for You are all the heaven I need.
– Samuel Rutherford –