The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness;… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God,… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share
