92 Quotes by Richard Sibbes

God has decreed it so, that where tenderness of heart is, there mercy shall follow...

What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?

The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.

The wronged side is always the safest.

It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.

We must neither bind where God looseth, nor loose where God bindeth, nor open where God shutteth, nor shut where God openeth; the right use of the keys is always successful.

No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.

Faith, whereby especially Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature.

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.