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Things Quotes by Richard Sibbes
- 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…
- When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
- 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…
- 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…
- See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
- It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that…
- 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…
- In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is the reason that…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle