92 Quotes by Richard Sibbes

Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.

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.

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.

What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption!

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may love him also for the sweetness of his person; so the soul first loves Christ for salvation but when she is brought to Him and finds what sweetness there is in Him then she loves Him for Himself.

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them...

It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart.