Quotes by Robert Leighton

Robert Leighton (1611–1684) — Erzbischof · Presbyterianisch · Schottland

Robert Leighton (1611–1684) war ein schottischer Theologe, Universitätsprediger und späterer Erzbischof von Glasgow. Im konfessionell zerrissenen Schottland des 17. Jahrhunderts bemühte er sich um eine Vermittlung zwischen Presbyterianern und Anglikanern, wobei seine Annahme des Bischofsamts von strengen Covenanters als Verrat verurteilt wurde. Heutigen Bibellesern ist er vor allem durch seinen praxisorientierten Kommentar zum ersten Petrusbrief und seine Schriften über persönliche Heiligung und Demut bekannt.

Era: Reformation & Baroque

Recurring topics: Growth & Character, Humility & Pride, Prayer & Silence, Suffering & the Question of God, Illness & Weakness, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Faith & Trust

Quotes by Robert Leighton

Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with.

Robert Leighton

God’s choice acquaintances are humble men.

Robert Leighton

Too much desire to please men mightily prejudgeth the pleasing of God.

Robert Leighton

Solitude, silence, and the strait keeping of the heart, are the foundations and grounds of a spiritual life.

Robert Leighton

You must keep your memory clean and pure, as it were a wedlock chamber, from all strange thoughts, fancies and imaginations, and it must be trimmed and adorned with holy meditations and virtues of Christ’s holy crucified life and passion: That God may continually and ever rest therein.

Robert Leighton

Men compare themselves with men, and readily with the worst, and flatter themselves with that comparative betterness. This is not the way to see spots, to look into the muddy streams of profane men’s lives; but look into the clear fountain of the Word, and there we may both discern and wash them; and consider the infinite holiness of God, and this will humble us to the dust.

Robert Leighton

Sources: wikipedia.org, oxforddnb.com, britannica11.org

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