"It is better to go bruised to heaven…" — Richard Sibbes
"It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell."
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61 Quotes by Richard Sibbes
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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…
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It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
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God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
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When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we…
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Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.…
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Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
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The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
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God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the…
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The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor…
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman,…
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We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going…
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