Quote

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Samuel Rutherford

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Samuel Rutherford
Died: 1661
Died: March 29
Author
Minister
Theologian
Samuel Rutherfoord
Since
Upon
Heart
Made
World
Worldliness
Portion
Portions
Hath

More quotes by Samuel Rutherford

Image
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
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
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
Samuel Rutherford
Image
We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
Grace grows best in winter.
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
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
The weightiest end of the cross of Christ that is laid upon you, lieth upon your strong Savior.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
Image
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
Image
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
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
I think it is possible on earth to build a young, new Jerusalem, a little, new heaven of this surpassing love. God, either send me more of this love, or take me quickly over the water, where I may be filled with his love.
Samuel Rutherford
Image
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
Image
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