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Richard Sibbes QUOTES

Richard Sibbes QUOTES

1 " Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. "

― Richard Sibbes

2 " Every creature thinks itself best in its own element, that is the place it thrives in, and enjoys its happiness in; now Christ is the element of a Christian. "

― Richard Sibbes , Christ Is Best

3 " Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. All delicacies without Christ are but as a funeral banquet. Where the master of the feast is away, there is nothing but solemnness. What is all without Christ? I say the joys of heaven are not the joys of heaven without Christ; he is the very heaven of heaven. "

― Richard Sibbes , Christ Is Best

4 " It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a death to us, but the death of itself. Death dies when I die, and I begin to live when I die. It is a sweet passage to life. We never live till we die. "

― Richard Sibbes , Christ Is Best

5 " Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

6 " Live desired in the world, and die lamented. "

― Richard Sibbes , Christ Is Best

7 " God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. "

― Richard Sibbes

8 " Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

9 " Where Christ’s Spirit is, it will bring men from their altitudes and excellencies, and make them to stoop to serve the church, and account it an honour to be an instrument to do good. "

― Richard Sibbes , Christ Is Best

10 " There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. "

― Richard Sibbes

11 " ‎"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. "

― Richard Sibbes

12 " 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, and accepts what he gives. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

13 " Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness. "

― Richard Sibbes

14 " See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings. "

― Richard Sibbes

15 " This bruising is required before conversion that so the Spirit may make way for himself into the heart by levelling all proud, high thoughts, and that we may understand ourselves to be what indeed we are by nature. We love to wander from ourselves and to be strangers at home, till God bruises us by one cross or other, and then we `begin to think', and come home to ourselves with the prodigal (Luke 15:17). It is a very hard thing to bring a dull and an evasive heart to cry with feeling for mercy. Our hearts, like criminals, until they be beaten from all evasions, never cry for the mercy of the judge. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

16 " Better to be in trouble with Christ, than in peace without him. "

― Richard Sibbes

17 " What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption! "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

18 " God sees fit that we should taste of that cup of which his Son drank so deep, that we might feel a little what sin is, and what his Son's love was. But our comfort is that Christ drank the dregs of the cup for us, and will
succor us, so that our spirits may not utterly fail under that little taste of his displeasure which we may feel. He became not only a man but a curse, a man of sorrows, for us. He was broken that we should not be broken; he was troubled, that we should not be desperately troubled; he became a curse, that we should not be accursed. Whatever may be wished for in an all sufficient comforter is all to be found in Christ. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

19 " It were a good strife amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed

20 " 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 being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy. "

― Richard Sibbes , The Bruised Reed