Samuel Rutherford Quotes

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

See the hand of God in all events, and thereby become reconciled to His dispensations.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

Fate rules. You follow the steps and you plan and you work. Then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or out guess it but most often its already written. For some its written in blood. That doesn't mean we stop, but it does mean we can't comfort ourselves with blame. It's easier to take the blame than to admit there was nothing you could do to stop whatever happened.

If after all your efforts you cannot succeed, you could not please our Lord more than by sacrificing to Him your will, and remaining in tranquility, humility, and devotion, entirely conformed and submissive to His divine will and good pleasure.

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait.

If you know that things are bound to happen whatever you do, then you may feel free to give up the fight against them.

When you are going through something like compaign run nothing happens without Allah's permission. So a lot of the times you just have to surrender to his will and learning how to surrender was a major thing for me, getting me out of the way, surrendering to the will of God.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one's being.

To her who gives and takes back all, to nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, Give what thou wilt; take back what thou wilt. And he says this not proudly, but obediently and well pleased with her.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.

God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.

We are to take no counsel with flesh and blood; give ear to no vain cavils, vain sorrows and wishes; to know that we know nothing, that the worst and cruelest to our eyes is not what it seems, that we have to receive whatsoever befalls us as sent from God above, and say, "It is good and wise,--God is great! Though He slay me, yet I trust in Him." Islam means, in its way, denial of self. This is yet the highest wisdom that heaven has revealed to our earth.

For when a people is not willing or able to fight for its existence- Providence in its eternal justice has decreed that people's end.

Come on in girls, and leave all hope behind.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

We are not to choose the manner in which our blessings shall be bestowed.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.