Top 100 Samuel Rutherford Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.”

— Samuel Rutherford

2. “Why should I tremble at the plough of my Lord, that maketh deep furrows on my soul? I know He is no idle husbandman, He purposeth a crop.”

— Samuel Rutherford

3. “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

4. “I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.”

— Samuel Rutherford

5. “The great Master Gardener, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, in a wonderful providence, with his own hand, planted me here, where by his grace, in this part of his vineyard, I grow; and here I will abide till the great Master of the vineyard think fit to transplant me.”

— Samuel Rutherford

6. “Grace grows best in winter.”

— Samuel Rutherford

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7. “Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome home to Heaven.”

— Samuel Rutherford

8. “I live no more, but Christ liveth in me!”

— Samuel Rutherford

9. “The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.”

— Samuel Rutherford

10. “Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.”

— Samuel Rutherford

11. “They lose nothing who gain Christ.”

— Samuel Rutherford

12. “Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us.”

— Samuel Rutherford

13. “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

14. “Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.”

— Samuel Rutherford

15. “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.”

— Samuel Rutherford

16. “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

17. “Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ’s part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord’s.”

— Samuel Rutherford

18. “No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.”

— Samuel Rutherford

19. “It is comfort to the believer that all things are possible.”

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

21. “Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.”

— Samuel Rutherford

22. “You will not be carried to Heaven lying at ease upon a feather bed.”

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

24. “My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.”

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

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

— Samuel Rutherford

28. “Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.”

— Samuel Rutherford

29. “Your heart is not the compass that God steers by.”

— Samuel Rutherford

30. “See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.”

— Samuel Rutherford

31. “Madam, when you are come to the other side of the water, and set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back to the water and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory nearer to the bottom of God’s wisdom, you 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.”

— Samuel Rutherford

32. “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

33. “I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the better for the sharp winter storm in its face and grace withers without adversity. The devil is but God’s master fencer to teach us to handle our weapons.”

— Samuel Rutherford

34. “O, what I owe to the file, the hammer, and the furnace of the Lord Jesus! I know that he is no idle husbandman – he purposes a crop.”

— Samuel Rutherford

35. “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

36. “The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.”

— Samuel Rutherford

37. “There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.”

— Samuel Rutherford

38. “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.”

— Samuel Rutherford

39. “Live on Christ’s love while ye are here, and all the way.”

— Samuel Rutherford

40. “I see Christ’s love is so kingly, that it will not abide a marrow it must have a throne all alone in the soul.”

— Samuel Rutherford

41. “My Lord Jesus has fully recompensed my sadness with his joys, my losses with his own presence. I find it a sweet and rich thing to exchange my sorrows with Christ’s joys, my afflictions with that sweet peace I have with himself.”

— Samuel Rutherford

42. “My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.”

— Samuel Rutherford

43. “Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.”

— Samuel Rutherford

44. “When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour’s greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.”

— Samuel Rutherford

45. “The hope of heaven under troubles is like wind and sails to the soul.”

— Samuel Rutherford

46. “Christ is a well of life, but who knoweth how deep it is to the bottom? This soul of ours hath love, and cannot but love some fair one; and O, what a fair One, what an only One, what an excellent, lovely, ravishing One is Jesus.”

— Samuel Rutherford

47. “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.”

— Samuel Rutherford

48. “I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights, to preach Christ my Lord.”

— Samuel Rutherford

49. “I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ’s fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them and casteth in some ounce withts of heaven and of the spirit of glory in our cup.”

— Samuel Rutherford

50. “How soon would faith freeze without a cross!”

— Samuel Rutherford