Richard Sibbes Quotes About Blessings

Quotes about: Blessings

• 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.

  Richard Sibbes

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Sleep

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3972, Titus Books

• This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.

  Richard Sibbes

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Sibbes (1775). “Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ...”, p.32

• The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

  Richard Sibbes

  Beautiful, Christian, Blessing

• Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Blessing, Heaven

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.105, Titus Books

• We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to Christ (James 4:8), in His ordinances, He draws near to us.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Blessing, Government

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.110, Titus Books

• Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.

  Richard Sibbes

  Death, Christian, Blessing

• 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 it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

  Richard Sibbes

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.106, Titus Books

• As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. 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

  Faith, Christian, Lying

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.105, Titus Books

• 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 all things.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Children, Blessing

• 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.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Spring, Humility

• What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.

  Richard Sibbes

  Gratitude, Blessing, Thinking

  Richard Sibbes (2001). “Works of Richard Sibbes”, Banner of Truth

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