Quote

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

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
False
Speak
Truth
May
Men
Prophet

More quotes by 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
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
Richard Sibbes
Image
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.
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
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
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
Image
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.
Richard Sibbes
Image
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
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
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
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
What is the gospel itself but a merciful moderation, in which Christ's obedience is esteemed ours, and our sins laid upon him, wherein God, from being a judge, becomes our Father, pardoning our sins and accepting our obedience, though feeble and blemished? We are now brought to heaven under the covenant of grace by a way of love and mercy.
Richard Sibbes
Image
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.
Richard Sibbes
Image
God 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.
Richard Sibbes
Image
What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?
Richard Sibbes
Image
There 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
Image
A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
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
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