Samuel Rutherford Quotes

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

I'm convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we'll never know what it is to be whole.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

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.

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

Oh, the fullness, pleasure, sheer excitement of knowing God on Earth! I care not if I never raise my voice again for Him, if only I may love Him, please Him. Mayhap in mercy He shall give me a host of children that I may lead them through the vast star fields to explore His delicacies whose finger ends set them to burning. But if not, if only I may see Him, touch His garments, smile into His eyes - ah then, not stars nor children shall matter, only Himself.

Our heart is restless until it rests in You.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I think there is a longing in everyone for a personal relationship with God.

You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and inspires these very longings, possesses the true world, and is that world.

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.

There's a huge yearning in our culture for something more... it's being more in touch with God... and what we were created to be.

I don't know anyone who doesn't have an empty spot at the center of him, which must be filled in order to be really happy. That spot, like it or not, is reserved for God.

People everywhere see the True, the Beautiful, and the Good and long to know their source. And, thank God, He has revealed Himself!

I am athirst for God, the living God.

O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace.

God made our souls to long for Him, and we are not fully satisfied without His presence in our lives.

There is a real hunger for spiritual things in today's culture; people are seeking something spiritual, something beyond themselves. That's the good news. The bad news is people are not getting it at church because the church is singing songs, preaching messages, doing programs, and taking offerings for itself.