Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

And as a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

There can be many different views of what Heaven is like, because Heaven is whatever makes each person eternally and fully happy.

Desire to see God, be fearful of losing Him, and find joy in everything that can lead to Him. If you act in this way, you will always live in great peace.

As a Christian, I got something the world didn't give me, the world can't take away, so I find joy that can never be reduced to anything. So I come into classroom on fire. I'm on fire for learning. I'm on fire for education, a paideia in the deepest sense of paideia, trying to get young people to shift from the superficial to the substantial, the shift from the bling-bling to letting freedom reign in their minds and hearts and souls.

You have no questions to ask of any body, no new way that you need inquire after; no oracle that you need to consult; for whilst you shut yourself up in patience, meekness, humility, and resignation to God, you are in the very arms of Christ, your heart is His dwelling-place, and He lives and works in you.

Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

You can receive Christ into your heart, and he can bring joy, and a thrill, and glory such as you have never known - if you will give your life to him.

Jesus to me is honey in the mouth, music in the ear, a song in the heart.

Delight is the secret. Learn of pure delight and thou shalt learn of God.

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Delighting in God's Word leads us to delight in God, and delight in God drives away fear.

Keep the joy of loving God in your heart and share this joy with all you meet especially your family. Be holy let us pray.

As believers, our joy and peace are not based in doing and achieving, but in believing. Joy and peace come as a result of building our relationship with the Lord.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?

Christ is everywhere and He is in me. What more do I want, except more of Him?

the more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.

Nothing compares with the satisfaction of pleasing the heart of our heavenly Father.

The experience of bliss can be the purest one of all and therefore the closest to God.

The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Life passes. Eternity comes to meet us with great strides. Soon we shall be living with the very life of Jesus. Having drunk deep at the source of all bitterness, we shall be deified in the very source of all joys, of all delights.