Samuel Rutherford Quotes

The love of Christ towards His people is a deep well which has no bottom.

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with chocolates, roses, or diamonds.

God’s love to us cannot fail any more than His love to Christ can fail.

We do not truly know what love is unless we know Christ.

If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.

We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

Love is strong as death; but nothing else is as strong as either; and both, love and death, met in Christ. How strong and powerful upon you, then, should that instruction be, that comes to you from both these, the love and death of Jesus Christ!

To Love is to reach God.

Earthly love is a brief and penurious stream, which only flows in spring, with a long summer drought. The change from a burning desert, treeless, springless, drear, to green fields and blooming orchards in June, is slight in comparison with that from the desert of this world's affection to the garden of God, where there is perpetual, tropical luxuriance of blessed love.

One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here.

Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change.

We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love.

Love is an infinite sky!

The power to Love is God's greatest gift to man, For it never will be taken from the Blessed one who loves.

Our identity rests in God's relentless tenderness for us revealed in Jesus Christ.

The marvel of the Redemptive Reality of God is that the worst and the vilest can never get to the bottom of His Love. Paul did not say that God separated him to show what a wonderful man He could make of him, but to "to reveal His Son in me

I believe that there is a love that moves the sun and the other stars.

I also understood that God's love shows itself just as well in the simplest soul which puts up no resistance to His grace as it does in the loftiest soul.

Love is, and I hope it never isn't.

But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.

When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love.

At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a great love for Christ filled my soul. That was more than fifty years ago. I loved Jesus Christ then, but I loved Him more the year after, and more the year after that, and more every year since.