Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Christ has no velvet crosses.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

Jesus Christ was the most perfect being to ever walk this planet and he was persecuted and nailed to the cross … so please don’t be surprised when we get a little static.

Great faith must have great trials.

We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.

If you want a testimony, you are going to have a test.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

Adversity makes men remember God.

Why should we think that we wouldn't have a cross to carry? Are we somehow more deserving than our Lord?

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a stronghold in my life. Really, through the shark attack and all the hard times that my family and I went through, it gave us unity and perseverance to push through all this crazy stuff that we never knew was going to happen.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

Don’t get too wrapped up in the flag because every flag is superseded by the cross.