Let us learn, then, to know that this is a mark of such as are in love with Christ. They think less of themselves than they can do of any other. Pride is not a mark of the children of God.
— Samuel Rutherford
“The Forlorn Son” in Quaint Sermons
Your Rock is Christ
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
Affliction
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord’s choicest wines.
— Samuel Rutherford
Love
I am so in love with His love that if His love were not in heaven I should be unwilling to go thither.
— Samuel Rutherford
Affliction
The thorn is the most cursed and angry and crabbed weeds that the earth yields, and yet out of it springs the rose, one of the sweetest smelled flowers, and most delightful to the eye.
— Samuel Rutherford
