(Heb.

11:4)

Richard Sibbes
Died
5th July 1635

 Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in

all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we
shall lose.
 
 God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

 When we receive any good to our souls or to our bodies, whoever is

the instrument, let us look to the Principal; as in the gifts we
receive, we look not to him that brings but to him who sent them.

 Many men ask questions and are inquisitive to know, but not that
they might put into practice.

 Factions always breed fractions.

 The string must never be too loose or too tight. Never open when
God closes or close when God opens. Never bind when God
loosens or loosen when God binds.
 He that seeks us before we sought Him, will He refuse us when we
seek after Him? Let no man therefore despair or ever be
discouraged.

 He that hates sin TRULY, hates ALL sin.

 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. 

 Where most holiness is – there is most moderation.

 Partial obedience is not obedience at all.

 God has not in vain taken upon Him the name of a Father; He fills
it up to the full. It is a name of indulgence, a name of hope, a
name of provision, a name of protection.

 There is no true zeal for God’s glory unless it is joined with true
love to men.

 What is possible to you is what you will be measured with.

 Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.

 There is a miserable camouflage in sin; naturally men will deny

sin or else diminish it.

 Infirmities and weaknesses are a ground of humility not a plea for

negligence or an encouragement to presumption.
 Those that care not for the Word are strangers to the Holy Spirit,
and those that care not for the Holy Spirit never make a right use
of the Word. The Word is nothing without the Spirit.

 Those that seek to be happy must first seek to be holy.

 True freedom is when the heart is enlarged and made subordinate

to God in Christ.

 Let the Holy Spirit think in us ,desire in us, pray in us, live in us,
do all in us, The Holy Spirit must rule.

 It is the endeavour of an evil man to quench a great deal of good

for a little ill.

 Hardships are a part of being a Christian, for a Christian is

engaged in the pursuit of holiness.

 We glorify God when we exalt Him in our souls above all creatures
in the world, when we give Him the highest places in our love and
in our joy, when all our affections are set upon Him as our
greatest good.

 It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.

 Let us have Heaven daily in our eye, and the Day of Judgment,
and times to come; so faith will steer the course of our lives, and
breed love in the use of the means, and patience to pass under all
conditions.

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

‘Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).’
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