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The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.
Richard Sibbes
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Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
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In 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 shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.
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Therefore, when we find our heart inflamed with love to God, we may know that God hath shined upon our souls in the pardon of sin and proportionally to our measure of love is our assurance of pardon. Therefore we should labour for a greater measure thereof, that our hearts may be the more inflamed in the love of God.
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When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.
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When 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 things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.
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See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
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It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
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Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
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Times are bad, God is good.
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This 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.
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We 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, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to Christ (James 4:8), in His ordinances, He draws near to us.
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God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
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A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
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A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
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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 for our greatest good.
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The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
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Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.
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Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
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It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
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