If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.
Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by). - Richard Sibbes
Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).
- Richard Sibbes
Times are bad, God is good. - Richard Sibbes
Times are bad, God is good.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose. - Richard Sibbes
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession. - Richard Sibbes
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
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 w… - Richard Sibbes
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 w…
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. - Richard Sibbes
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
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… - Richard Sibbes
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…
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell. - Richard Sibbes
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world. - Richard Sibbes
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
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