Samuel Rutherford Quotes

As believers in Jesus Christ, our work is to believe while God works on our behalf.

Do not look to your hope, but to Jesus, the Source of your hope.

If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith.

The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.

When it comes to Christ, you've got to do the same. Call him crazy, or crown him as king. Dismiss him as a fraud, or declare him to be God. Walk away from him, or bow before him, but don't play games with him.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ.

I have a great faith in God and Jesus.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

Faith is what replaces doubt in my dictionary.

Assurance never comes from looking at ourselves. It only comes as a consequence of looking to Christ.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

I know that Jesus is in charge; he's walking with me.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.