Skip to content

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul — they lose nothing who gain Christ.

— Samuel Rutherford

Another quote →

Topics

Patience

More quotes by Samuel Rutherford

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

All Samuel Rutherford quotes →

You may also like

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Benjamin Disraeli Contarini Fleming (1832)

Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (1865)

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace (1865)

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Rutherford (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.