Quotes by Richard Greenham

Richard Greenham (1535–1594) — Geistlicher und Theologe · puritanisch · England

Richard Greenham war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher und Theologe des 16. Jahrhunderts, der vor allem als Dorfpfarrer in Dry Drayton bei Cambridge sowie in London wirkte. Er gilt als Wegbereiter der praktischen Seelsorge und des englischen Sabbatarianismus, wobei er trotz kirchenrechtlicher Konflikte um liturgische Bräuche eine Abspaltung von der Church of England ablehnte. Bibellesern begegnet er heute vor allem durch seine Schriften zum Umgang mit geistlichen Anfechtungen und zur Begründung von Heilsgewissheit allein durch den Glauben.

Era: Reformation & Baroque

Recurring topics: Growth & Character, Work & Vocation, Relationships & Family, Discipleship, Faith & Trust, Suffering & the Question of God

Quotes by Richard Greenham

Diligence makes the rough places plain, the difficult easy, and the unsavory tasty.

Richard Greenham

If parents would have their children blessed at church and at school, let them beware they give their children no corrupt examples at home by any carelessness, profaneness, or ungodliness. Otherwise, parents will do them more harm at home than both pastors and schoolmasters can do them good abroad. For the corrupt example of the one fighteth with the good instruction of the other, which is so much the more dangerous because that corrupt walking is armed with nature, and therefore more forcibly inclineth the affections of the children to that side.

Richard Greenham

Whatsoever is upon you is from the Lord, and whatsoever is from the Lord, to you it is in mercy; and whatsoever comes in mercy ought not to be grievous to you. What loss is it when the losing of earthly things is the gaining of spiritual things? All shall be for your good, if you make your use of all.

Richard Greenham

Sources: wikipedia.org, christianstudylibrary.org, fairviewbaptistchurch.ca

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