Samuel Rutherford Quotes

You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

What men call accident is God's own part.

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

The word of God - what does it say about what his place is going to be in the Kingdom? Think about it.

God uses whoever he wants.

Actions yield result by the ordinance of God as He wills.

If everything is God's will, then so is the invention of the vaccine, just like the seatbelt.

Each visible planet is the embodiment of a great and exalted spiritual intelligence Who is the minister of God in that department of His Kingdom, endeavoring to carry out His Will, the latter having in view the ultimate highest good, regardless of temporary ill.

A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.

It may seem like we have the ultimate plan for our lives, but it's not in the same galaxy of what God's plans are for His people.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

Order is heaven's first law.

The Bible says that God has a reason for keeping us here; if He didn't, He would take us to Heaven far sooner.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

Through the humbling dispensations of Divine Providence, men are sometimes fitted for his service.

Men are not flattered by being shown that there is a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them.

Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this.

War has its evils. In all ages it has been the minister of wholesale death and appalling desolation; but however inscrutable to us, it has been made, by the Allwise Dispenser of events, the instrumentality of accomplishing the great end of human elevation and human happiness .... It is in this view that I subscribe to the doctrine of manifest destiny.

… every State in the Universe is equally a Theocracy. Whoever believes in a particular Providence must acknowledge that the Events of States are governed by the Almighty

Without doubt, God is the universal moving force, but each being is moved according to the nature that God has given it.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

Everything happens within God's perfect plan.

Time is not of man; it is of God.