« All God Quotes · Richard Sibbes's Page
God Quotes by Richard Sibbes
- God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
- 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…
- 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…
- When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires,…
- 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, from…
- God's truth always agrees with itself.
- No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections…
- God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do…
- There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.
- When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.
- The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object,…
- The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
- Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of…
- God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of…
- A Christian is the greatest freeman in the world; he is free from the wrath of God, free from hell and damnation, form the curse…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi