Quotes from Richard Sibbes

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

Times are bad, God is good.

Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

God's truth always agrees with itself.

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.

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.

The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.

Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.