Quotes by Samuel Rutherford
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) — Theologe · Puritaner · Schottland
Samuel Rutherford (1600–1661) war ein schottischer presbyterianischer Theologe, Pfarrer und Hochschullehrer, der das theologische Erbe der Covenanter und der Westminster-Synode maßgeblich mitprägte. Er wurde bekannt durch sein staatsphilosophisches Werk „Lex, Rex“, das die Unterordnung von Herrschern unter das Recht forderte, sowie durch seine geistlichen Trostbriefe, während er zugleich die religiöse Gewissensfreiheit strikt ablehnte. Für heutige Bibelleser verbindet sein Werk eine intensive Christusfrömmigkeit im Leiden mit den staats- und kirchenpolitischen Härten des 17. Jahrhunderts.
Era: Reformation & Baroque
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, Hope & Confidence, Eternity & Hope Beyond Death, Suffering & the Question of God, Grief & Comfort, Love, Guidance & God's Will, Joy & Gratitude
Quotes by Samuel Rutherford
Believe God’s love and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your rock is Christ, and it is not the rock that ebbs and flows but the sea.
Samuel Rutherford
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.
Samuel Rutherford
Ye have lost a child; nay, she is not lost to you, who is found in Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star which, going out of sight, does not die and vanish, but shines in another hemisphere.
Samuel Rutherford
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own, He hath run away to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford
Why should I tremble at the plow of my Lord that makes deep furrows on my soul? For He is no idle husbandman, He purposes a crop.
Samuel Rutherford
When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
Samuel Rutherford
O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.
Samuel Rutherford
Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.
Samuel Rutherford
Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome home to Heaven.
Samuel Rutherford
Of all created comforts, God is the leader; you are the borrower, not the owner.
Samuel Rutherford
Next to Christ I have one joy: to preach Christ my Lord.
Samuel Rutherford
I rejoice in the hope of that glory to be revealed, for it is no uncertain glory that we look for. Our hope is not hung upon such an untwisted thread as, “I imagine so,” or “It is likely,” but the cable, the strong tow of our fastened anchor, is the oath and promise of Him who is eternal verity. Our salvation is fastened with God’s own hand, and with Christ’s own strength, to the strong stake of God’s unchangeable nature.
Samuel Rutherford
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 funisheth a fairfield to faith to put forth itself, and to exercise its fingers in gripping it seeth not what.
Samuel Rutherford
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