Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Richard Sibbes' quotes

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.

He, the Spirit, sanctifieth and purifieth, and doth all from the Father and the Son, and knits us to the Father and the Son--to the Son first, and then to the Father, because all the communion we have with God is by the Holy Ghost; all the communion that Christ as man had with God was by the Holy Ghost; and all the communion that God hath with us, and we with God is by the Holy Ghost. For the Spirit is the bond of union between Christ and us, and between God and us.

Let us give up the government of our souls to the Spirit. It is for our safety so to do, as being wiser than ourselves who are unable to direct our own way; it is our liberty to be under a wisdom and goodness larger than our own. Let the Spirit think in us, desire in us, pray in us, live in us, do all in us; labor ever to be in such a frame as we may be fit for the Spirit to work upon.

By living and moving, by actions vital, even so may a man know he hath the Spirit of God by its blessed effects in operations; it is not idle in us; but as the soul quickens the body, so doth the Spirit the soul. Every saving grace is a sign that the Spirit is within us.

Is it not the greatest comfort to a Christian soul when God, in want of means, comes immediately Himself unto us and comforts us by His Spirit?

The Holy Spirit being in us, after he that prepared us for a house for himself to dwell in and to take up his rest and delight in, he doth also become unto us a counselor in all our doubts, a comforter in all our distresses, a solicitor to all duty, a guide in the whole course of life, until we dwell with him forever in heaven, unto which his dwelling here in us doth tend.

To preach is to open the mystery of Christ: to break open the box that the savour may be perceived of all.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

God's truth always agrees with itself.

Confession is verbal humiliation.

How should finite comprehend infinite? We shall apprehend Him, but not comprehend Him.

For what is grace but the beams of Christ, the Sun of Righteousness.

Whatsoever 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 shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve our greatest good.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.

Satan gives Adam (a fruit), and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider what not he offers, but what we shall lose.


1 comment:

  1. And can a heart and life find its path without light? He is light and graciously and mercifully lights our paths that we might have lives rich with His communion free from bondage to darkness. Justice and mercy prevails.

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