Quotes by Richard Sibbes
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) — Prediger · Puritaner · England
Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) war ein englischer Theologe der Church of England, der als Universitätsprediger in Cambridge und an der Juristenfakultät Gray’s Inn in London wirkte. Als gemäßigter Puritaner wurde er vor allem durch seelsorgliche Schriften wie „The Bruised Reed“ und seine Betonung der Barmherzigkeit Christi bekannt, geriet durch kirchenpolitische Initiativen jedoch zeitweise in Konflikt mit den kirchlichen Behörden. Heutigen Bibellesern vermitteln seine Texte einen Einblick in eine Auslegungstradition, die theologische Tiefe mit praktischem Trost bei Glaubenszweifeln und inneren Anfechtungen verbindet.
Era: Reformation & Baroque
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Faith & Trust, Growth & Character, Guilt & Forgiveness, Hope & Confidence, Temptation & Struggle, Love
Quotes by Richard Sibbes
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Richard Sibbes
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
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
Richard Sibbes
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
Richard Sibbes
Satan gives Adam an apple (fruit), and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Richard Sibbes
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
Richard Sibbes
It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.
Richard Sibbes
There can be no victory where there is no combat.
Richard Sibbes
Confession is verbal humiliation.
Richard Sibbes
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
Richard Sibbes
There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.
Richard Sibbes
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
Richard Sibbes
God’s truth always agrees with itself.
Richard Sibbes
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
Richard Sibbes
God’s goodness is a communicative, spreading goodness… If God had not a communicative, spreading goodness, He would never have created the world. The Father, Son and Holy Ghost were happy in themselves and enjoyed one another before the world was. But that God delights to communicate and spread His goodness, there had never been a creation nor a redemption. God uses His creatures not for defect of power, that He can do nothing without them, but for the spreading of His goodness.
Richard Sibbes
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness? All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea. If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator. Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort.
Richard Sibbes
Factions always breed fractions.
Richard Sibbes
It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart.
Richard Sibbes
God’s goodness is near us. It is not a goodness far away, but God follows us with His goodness in whatever situation we are. He attaches Himself to us, He has made Himself close, that He might be near us in goodness. He is a father, and everywhere to maintain us. He is a husband, and everywhere to help. He is a friend, and everywhere to comfort and counsel. His love is a near love. He has taken upon Himself the closest kinds of relationships, so that we may never lack God and the evidences of His love.
Richard Sibbes
Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.
Richard Sibbes
Sources: wikipedia.org, christianstudylibrary.org
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