We never with our eyes saw our own soul; yet we have a soul. We see many rivers, but we know not their first spring and original fountain; yet they have a beginning. …When ye are come to the other side…set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see, in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God’s wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, ‘If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.’ It is your part now to believe, and suffer, and hope, and wait on…
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Journeys
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.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Children
Of all created comforts, God is the lender; you are the borrower, not the owner.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Happiness, Safety
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Prayer
Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Grace
You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Dedication
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Heaven
Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Encouragement
My faith hath no bed to sleep upon but omnipotency.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Faith
The cross of Christ is the sweetest burden that I ever bore; it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbor.
—Samuel Rutherford
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Prayer, Selfishness
The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Heaven
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what the Lord is preparing for him.
—Samuel Rutherford
Topics: Sadness
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Archibald Alexander Hodge American Presbyterian Theologian
- George Matheson Scottish Theologian
- Francis Schaeffer American Presbyterian Religious Leader
- David Livingstone Scottish Missionary, Explorer
- Karl Barth Swiss Protestant Theologian
- Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Novelist
- Frederick Buechner American Writer, Theologian
- Austin Phelps American Presbyterian Clergyman
- John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir Scottish Novelist
- Maltbie Davenport Babcock American Clergyman
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