Quotes by Rutherford

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.

— Rutherford

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.

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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.

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Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own .

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My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.

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In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.

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

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I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways!

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

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

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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.

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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.

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My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.

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

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How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

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Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.

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Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

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  ​ When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have 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 enjoyment of this crown of glory."

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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.

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There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.

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It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.

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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.

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Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.

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Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.

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