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> [It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/it-is-better-to-go-bruised-to-heaven-than-sound-to-hell/)

[Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-sibbes/)

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## More by Richard Sibbes

> [Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/let-weak-christians-know-that-a-spark-from-heaven-though-kindled/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/measure-not-god-s-love-and-favour-by-your-own-feeling-the-sun-shines/)

[Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-sibbes/)

> [It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/it-is-better-to-go-bruised-to-heaven-than-sound-to-hell/)

[Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-sibbes/)

> [The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/the-winter-prepares-the-earth-for-the-spring-so-do-afflictions/)

[Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-sibbes/)

> [ The tenets of \[the Christian life\] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/the-tenets-of-the-christian-life-seem-paradoxes-to-carnal-men-as/)

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> [See here, for our comfort, a sweet agreement of all three persons: the Father giveth a commission to Christ; the Spirit furnisheth and sanctifieth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/see-here-for-our-comfort-a-sweet-agreement-of-all-three-persons-the/)

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> [God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/god-takes-a-safe-course-with-his-children-that-they-may-not-be/)

[Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-sibbes/)

> [Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/sin-is-not-so-sweet-in-the-committing-as-it-is-heavy-and-bitter-in/)

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> [What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/what-coward-would-not-fight-when-he-is-sure-of-victory/)

[Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-sibbes/)

> [There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/there-is-not-a-minute-of-time-in-all-of-our-life-but-we-must-either/)

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> [The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/the-life-of-a-christian-is-wondrously-ruled-in-this-world-by-the/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/when-a-man-is-to-travel-into-a-far-country-one-staff-in-his-hand-may/)

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> [The wronged side is always the safest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/the-wronged-side-is-always-the-safest/)

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> [If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/if-believers-decay-in-their-first-love-or-in-some-other-grace-yet/)

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> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-sibbes/what-is-the-gospel-itself-but-a-merciful-moderation-in-which-christ-s/)

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