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Richard Sibbes Quotes
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“In pursuing his calling, Christ will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax, in which more is meant than spoken, for he will not only not break nor quench, but he will cherish those with whom he so deals.”
“The purest actions of the purest men need Christ to perfume them; and this is his office. When we pray, we need to pray again for Christ to pardon the defects of our prayers.”
“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”
“The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.”
“There can be no victory where there is no combat.”
“The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”
“Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.”
“God's truth always agrees with itself.”
“Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.”
“Confession is verbal humiliation.”
“Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.”
“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. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.”
“It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.”
“It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.”
“Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.”
“It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart.”
“Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ.”
“Times are bad, God is good.”
“God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.”
“It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.”
“What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?”
“Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.”
“Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him.”
“See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.”
“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 and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.”
“It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.”
“What the heart liketh best, the mind studieth most.”
“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 channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.”
“Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.”
“The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.”