Richard Sibbes Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

  Richard Sibbes

  Religious, Pride, Grace

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.3399, Titus Books

• The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

  Richard Sibbes

  Religious, Spring, Winter

• 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

  Giving, Grace, Covenant

  Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com

• 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

  Father, Judging, Heaven

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.66, Titus Books

• 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

  Spiritual, Eye, Godly

  Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com

• Christ chiefly manifests Himself in times of affliction, because then the soul unites itself most closely by faith to Christ. The soul, in time of prosperity, scatters its affections, and looses itself in the creature; but there is a uniting power in sanctified afflictions, by which a believer, (as in rain a hen collects her brood) gathers his best affections unto his Father and his God.

  Richard Sibbes

  Father, Rain, Grace

• 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

  Christian, Blessing, Heaven

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.105, Titus Books

• God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Children, Blessing

• If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Spring, Humility

• Christ quickens none but the dead. Why do not the papists attain to this grace of justification? They never see themselves wholly dead, but join some life to the natural estate of man. Therefore Christ quickens them not.

  Richard Sibbes

  Men, Grace, Christ

  Richard Sibbes (2001). “Works of Richard Sibbes: Expositions and treatises from portions of several of the Epistles of St. Paul”, Banner of Truth

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