Samuel Rutherford Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• Our little time of suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome home to Heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Home, Night

  Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.124

• 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

  Adversity, Winter, Water

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

  Samuel Rutherford

  Suffering, Affliction, Fellowship

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.242

• 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

  Letting Go, Brother, Suffering

• You will not get to steal quietly into heaven, into Christ's company, without a conflict and a cross. I find crosses to be Christ's carved work that he marks out for us and that with crosses he portraits us to his own image, cutting away pieces of our ill and corruption. Lord cut - Lord carve - Lord wound - Lord do anything that may perfect thy Father's image in us and make us ready for glory.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Father, Cutting, Perfect

• Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Christian, Patience, Soul

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.360

• There is as much in our Lord's pantry as will satisfy all his children and as much wine in his cellar as will quench all their thirst. Hunger on, for there is meat in hungering for Christ; go never from him, but seek him who is yet pleased with the importunity of hungry souls until he fills you; if he delays, yet do not go away, even if you faint at his feet.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Children, Wine, Feet

• It is the Lord's kindness that he will take the scum off us in the fire. Who know how needful winnowing is to us and what dross we have before we enter the kingdom of God? So narrow is the entry to heaven that our knots, lumps of pride, self-love, idol-love, and world-love must be hammered off us, that we may stoop low and creep through into that narrow entry.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Kindness, Pride, Self

• 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

  Jesus, Suffering, Purpose

• 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

  Faithful, Suffering, Events

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.74

• I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Suffering, Sin, Lord

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.363

• I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Sweet, Loss, Suffering

  Samuel Rutherford (1857). “Letters”, p.148

• Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Blessed, Sins Not, Wrath

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.363

• When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Brother, Pain, Home

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