Samuel Rutherford Quotes

We have but one permanent home: heaven - that's still the old truth that we always have to re-learn - and it's only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

One sweetly solemn thought, comes to me o'er and o'er; I am nearer home today, than I ever have been before.

We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Everybody wants to go to Heaven, but no one wants to die to get there!

When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

Everybody wants to go to heaven but very few people are willing to die.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."

The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

Those who have not found the heaven below, will fail of it above.

The only way to get to Heaven is to go through Hell.

Remembering the facts of death and Heaven gives us an even more pressing reason to learn to pray: We do not have an infinite amount of time. We are one day nearer Home today than we ever were before. I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.'

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

At great cost to Himself, God has made it possible for each of us to live with Him eternally. Those who reject God's offer of a heavenly home will be assigned to hell.

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

There is no greater honour than to be the instrument in God's hands of leading one person out of the kingdom of Satan into the glorious light of Heaven.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

Laying up treasures in heaven will draw the heart heavenward.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ