All Richard Sibbes Quotes
- 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 be… Abundance
- It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope. Atheism
- God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. Confused
- When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and… Answer
- Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of… Affection
- Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. Affliction
- The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. Affliction
- When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. Affliction
- God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that… Affliction
- The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God… All
- The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves;… All
- We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we… Access
- Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace. Blessing
- This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such… Bare
- Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to… All
- As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will… Acknowledgement
- God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of… Advance
- If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they… Believer
- Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last. All
- Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they… All
- The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world. Another World
- In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing… All
- It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ Add
- The wronged side is always the safest. Inspirational
- 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 brightest.… Brightest
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