The Loveliness of Christ Quotes

“Christ is a well of life, but who knoweth how deep it is to the bottom? This soul of ours hath love, and cannot but love some fair one; and O, what a fair One, what an only One, what an excellent, lovely, ravishing One is Jesus.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“Christ and His cross together are sweet company, and a blessed couple. My prison is my palace, my losses are rich losses, my pain easy pain, my heavy days are holy and happy days.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“Our pride must have winter weather to rot it.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“When we shall come home and enter to the possession of our Brother’s fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, and when we shall look back to pains and sufferings; then shall we see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory; and that our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night’s welcome home to heaven.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“Let Christ’s love bear most court in your soul, and that court will bear down the love of other things. Christ chargeth me to believe His daylight at midnight.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“The good husbandman may pluck His roses and gather in His liles at midsummer, and, for ought I dare say, in the beginning of the first summer month; and He may transplant young trees out of the lower ground to the higher, where they have more of the sun, and a more free air, at any season of the year. What is that to you or me? The goods are his own.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“I am in as sweet communion with Christ as a poor sinner can be; and am only pained that He hath much beauty and fairness, and I little love; He great power and mercy, and I little faith; He much light, and I bleared eyes.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“I am most gladly content that Christ breaketh all my idols in pieces: it hath put a new edge upon my blunted love to Christ. I see He is jealous of my love, and will have all to Himself.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“I find Christ to be Christ, and that He is far, far, even infinite heaven’s height above man. And that is all our happiness. Sinners can do nothing but make wounds that Christ may heal them; and make debts, that He may pay them; and make falls, that He may raise them; and make deaths, that He may quicken them; and spin out and dig hells to themselves, that He may ransom them.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Give Him leave to take His own way of dispensation with you; and though it be rough, forgive Him; He defieth you to have as much patience to Him, as He hath borne to you .”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“I rather wish Him my heart than give Him it; except He take it and put Himself in possession of it (for I hope He hath a market-right to me, since He hath ransomed me), I see not how Christ can have me. O, that He would be pleased to be more homely with my soul’s love, and to come in to my soul and take His own.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Alas, that we should love by measure and weight, and not rather have floods and feasts of Christ’s love! O, that Christ would break down the old narrow vessels of these narrow and ebb souls, and make fair, deep, wide, and broad souls, to hold a sea and a full tide, flowing over all its banks of Christ’s love.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Learn to believe Christ better than His strokes; Himself and His promises better than His glooms .”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“O! for the long day, and the high sun, and the fair garden, and the King’s great city up above these visible heavens!”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ’s bosom.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Our fair morning is at hand, the day-star is near the rising, and we are not many miles from home; what matters the ill entertainment in the smoky inns of this miserable life? we are not to stay here, and we will be dearly welcome to Him whom we go to.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“Now I will bless the Lord that ever there was such a thing as the free grace of God, and a free ransom given for sold souls; only, alas! guiltiness maketh me ashamed to apply to Christ, and to think it pride in me to put out my unclean and withered hand to such a Saviour! But it is neither shame nor pride for a drowning man to swim to a rock, nor for a ship-broken soul to run himself ashore upon Christ. We”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“I know no sweeter way to heaven, than through free grace and hard trials together, and one of these cannot well want another.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“It cost Christ and all His followers sharp showers and hot sweats ere they won to the top of the mountain. But still our soft nature would have heaven coming to our bedside when we are sleeping, and lying down with us, that we might go to heaven in warm clothes; but all that came there found wet feet by the way, and sharp storms that did take the hide off their face, and found tos and fros, and ups and downs, and many enemies by the way.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Let not the Lord’s dealings seem harsh, rough or unfatherly, because it is unpleasant. When the Lord’s blessed will bloweth cross your desires, it is best in humility to strike sail to Him and to be willing to be laid any way our Lord pleaseth: it is a point of denial of yourself, to be as if ye had not a will but had made a free disposition of it to God, and had sold it over to Him; and to make use of His will for your own is both true holiness, and your ease and peace. Ye know not what the Lord is working out of this, but ye shall know it hereafter.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“He cutteth off your love to the creature, that ye might learn that God only is the right owner of your love, sorrow, loss, sadness, death or the worst things that are, except sin:”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“How soon will some few years pass away, and then when the day is ended, and this life’s lease expired, what have men of the world’s glory, but dreams and thoughts? O happy soul for evermore, who can rightly compare this life with that long-lasting life to come, and can balance the weighty glory of the one with the light golden vanity of the other.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Christ all the seasons of the year, is dropping sweetness; if I had vessels I might fill them, but my old riven, holey, and running-out dish, even when I am at the well, can bring little away. Nothing but glory will make tight and fast our leaking and rifty30 vessels . . . How little of the sea can a child carry in his hand; as little do I take away of my great sea, my boundless and running-over Christ Jesus.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Christ hath come, and run away to heaven with my heart and my love, so that neither heart nor love is mine.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Christ’s cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass Christ saileth by. I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far above me . . . There are windings and to’s and fro’s in His ways, which blind bodies like us cannot see.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ: Selections from the Letters of Samuel Rutherford

“Dry wells send us to the fountain.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“This water was in your way to heaven, and written in your Lord's book; ye behoved to cross it: and therefore, kiss His wise and unerring providence. Let not the censures of men, who see but the outside of things (and scarce well that), abate your courage and rejoicing in the Lord; howbeit, your faith seeth the black side of providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ

“I find it most true, that the greatest temptation out of hell, is to live without temptations; if my waters should stand, they would rot. Faith is the better of the free air, and of the sharp winter storm in its face. Grace withereth without adversity. The devil is but God’s master fencer, to teach us to handle our weapons.”
― Samuel Rutherford, The Loveliness of Christ