Richard SibbesGospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.371Love
Richard SibbesGod's truth always agrees with itself.352Truth
Richard SibbesIt is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell. ✨ Richard Sibbes (1995). Light from Heaven, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,352Philosophy
Richard SibbesChrist 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 affecti… ▶341HopeLovePolitics
Richard SibbesIf Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without. ✨ Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski,… ▶365Love
Richard SibbesThere is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone. ✨ Richard Sibbes (2015). Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume… ▶333LifeReadingTime
Richard SibbesWhen we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses. ✨ Richard Sibbes (2013). The Bruised Reed, p.80, Lulu Press, I… ▶311Philosophy
Richard SibbesPoverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. ✨ Richard Sibbes (2015). Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set), p.3399, Titus Books333Reading
Richard SibbesIt is atheism to pray and not wait on hope. ✨ Richard Sibbes (1775). Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations ..., p.75344Hope
Richard SibbesIn all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shal… ▶355DeathReading
Richard SibbesThe way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.378Love
Richard SibbesNo sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lea… ▶368LoveTruth
Richard SibbesIn the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste. ✨ Richard Sibbes… ▶379Truth
Richard SibbesFaith, 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, ho… ▶281HopeReadingTime
Richard SibbesDeath is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.347DeathPolitics
Richard SibbesThe depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.3610Reading
Richard SibbesWhat coward would not fight when he is sure of victory? ✨ Richard Sibbes (2015). Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set), p.121, Titus Books293Reading
Richard SibbesThere is more mercy in Christ than sin in us. ✨ Richard Sibbes (1995). Light from Heaven, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,359Reading
Richard SibbesThe winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.327Humanity
Richard SibbesThe wronged side is always the safest.283Love
Richard SibbesThe love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person: so the soul first loves Christ for salvation, but when… ▶251Love
Richard SibbesMeasure 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 clou… ▶306HopeLove
Richard SibbesWe 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,… ▶296PoliticsReadingThought
Richard SibbesWhen a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward thi… ▶274Death
Richard SibbesWhat the heart liketh best, the mind studieth most. ✨ Richard Sibbes (1995). Light from Heaven, p.57, Sovereign Grace Publishers,319DeathLoveThought
Richard SibbesGod knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives. ✨ Richar… ▶297Life
Richard SibbesThe life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world. ✨ Richard Sibbes (2015). Complete Works of Richa… ▶231LifeReadingReflection
Richard SibbesThis 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 (1… ▶3110HopeLifeTruth
Richard SibbesGod 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?… ▶244Love
Richard SibbesWhatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they… ▶288Reading
