Quote

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.

Richard Sibbes

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Sibbes
Age: 58 †
Born: 1577
Born: January 1
Died: 1635
Died: January 1
Theologian
Tostock
Suffolk
Opposes
Fetch
Devil
Therefore
Strength
Prayer

More quotes by Richard Sibbes

Image
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
Richard Sibbes
Image
The 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 it is brought to him, and finds what sweetness there is in him, then the soul loves him for himself, and esteems his person, as well as rejoices in his benefits.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Richard Sibbes
Image
God's truth always agrees with itself.
Richard Sibbes
Image
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
Image
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.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Gospel 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.
Richard Sibbes
Image
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.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.
Richard Sibbes
Image
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.
Richard Sibbes
Image
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
Richard Sibbes
Image
If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.
Richard Sibbes
Image
In 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
Image
There are no men more careful of the use of means than those that are surest of a good issue and conclusion, for the one stirs up diligence in the other. Assurance of the end stirs up diligence in the means. For the soul of a believing Christian knows that God has decreed both.
Richard Sibbes
Image
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.
Richard Sibbes
Image
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
Richard Sibbes
Image
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
Richard Sibbes