Quote

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

Samuel Rutherford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
Author
Minister
Theologian
Samuel Rutherfoord
Roots
Zion
Wind
Shaken
Grow
Mount
Tree
Palm
Grows
Palms
Winds
Root
Fast

More quotes by Samuel Rutherford

Image
We are as near to heaven as we are far from self, and far from the love of a sinful world.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
Heaven is a house full of miracles yea, of spectacles and images of free grace.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle and border of time, and shall put your foot within the march of eternity, all the good things of your short nightdream shall seem to you like ashes of a blaze of thorns or straw.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
Samuel Rutherford
Image
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
He who duly esteemeth Christ, is a noble bidder, and so a noble and liberal buyer.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-
Samuel Rutherford
Image
No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord
Samuel Rutherford
Image
If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
Image
Desires going before conversion are not such as can calm a storming conscience.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Since He looked upon me my heart is not my own. He hath runaway to heaven with it.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
Image
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.
Samuel Rutherford