Love & Passion Quote by Samuel Rutherford

Rutherford’s line is devotional swagger with a Calvinist spine: faith is not a cozy attitude or a private coping mechanism, it’s a full-bodied collapse onto the only surface that won’t give way. The “bed” image matters because it domesticates something otherwise abstract. Sleep is where control ends; you can’t white-knuckle unconsciousness. By choosing a bed, Rutherford smuggles in vulnerability, nightly repetition, and the risk of being unmade. Faith, for him, is the practiced habit of letting yourself fall.

The punch is the last word. “Omnipotence” isn’t comfort so much as extremity. He’s not saying faith rests on good odds, moral progress, or even religious feeling; it has no mattress but the infinite power of God. That “no...but” construction is a dare: strip away every secondary support (church stability, political fortune, bodily health, personal steadiness) and see whether trust still has somewhere to lie down.

Context sharpens the stakes. Rutherford lived through the British civil wars, intense sectarian conflict, and his own bouts of confinement and pressure. In a world where institutions and loyalties kept cracking, “omnipotence” becomes the only unreposessable property. The subtext is polemical as well as pastoral: it rejects the era’s competing “beds” - ritual assurance, human authority, works-based confidence - and replaces them with a single foundation that can’t be audited by circumstance. The sentence doesn’t ask you to feel safe; it dares you to risk sleeping anyway.