Samuel Rutherford Quotes

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

To be a Christian is not only to believe the teaching of Christ, and to practice it; it is not only to try to follow the pattern and example of Christ; it is to be so vitally related to Christ that His life and His power are working in us. It is to be "in Christ," it is for Christ to be in us.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

If you know Christ, you don't need to beg for the Holy Spirit to come into your life; He is already there- whether you "feel" His presence or not. Don't confuse the Holy Spirit with an emotional feeling or a particular type of spiritual experience.

As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.

I sometimes fear that we have so redefined conversion in terms of human decisions and have so removed any necessity of the experience of God’s Spirit, that many people think they are saved when in fact they only have Christian ideas in their head not spiritual power in their heart.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

See Christ, then you are a Christian; all else is talk.

Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire.

The greatest joy of a Christian is to give joy to Christ.

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins.

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.

I have a great need for Christ: I have a great Christ for my need.

The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.

The only man who has the right to say that he is justified by grace alone is the man who has left all to follow Christ.

The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine.

I was raised in a wonderful family of faith. It was church on Sunday morning and grace before dinner, but my Christian faith became real for me when I made a personal decision for Christ when I was a freshman in college, and I've tried to live that out however imperfectly every day of my life since, and with my wife at my side, we've followed a calling in the public service where we've tried to keep faith with values that we cherish.

Christianity is not a cafeteria line where you say, “I’ll have a little salvation, but no Lordship right now.

Give your life to Christ, he'll challenge you.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

As soon as a man has found Christ, he begins to find others.

When I look back at the Christian faith, I see that we have had to retranslate, almost reinvent ourselves a number of times.

A true Christian is a man who never for a moment forgets what God has done for him in Christ and whose whole comportment and whose activity have their root in the sentiment of gratitude.