Richard Sibbes

Richard Sibbes talking about the person and work of the Holy Spirit is so rich. I think that he would shock many today.

We must never think the door of hope to be shut against us, if we have a purpose to turn unto God. - Richard Sibbes, Works i:230

Jacob, after he received a blow which made him lame, yet would not give over wrestling (Gen. 32:25) till he had obtained the blessing. -- Richard Sibbes

If there be a spring of sin in us, there is a spring of mercy in him, and a fountain open daily to wash ourselves in, Zech. xiii. 1.

Despair is a high point of atheism, it takes away God and Christ both at once.

Conceive of God's mercy as no ordinary mercy, and Christ's obedience as no ordinary obedience.

Sin makes us afraid of that which should be our greatest comfort; it puts a sting into every other evil.

When Adam had once offended God, paradise itself was not paradise to him.

True it is, that sin is not so sweet in the committing, as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

If we can bring all our hope and trust to the God of hope and trust, we shall stand impregnable in all assaults.

We should therefore labour to bring our souls, as David doth here, to a firm and peremptory resolution, and not stand wavering, as it were equally balanced betwixt God and other things; but enforce our souls.

The love of God in Christ is not a barren kindness. It is a love that reaches from everlasting to everlasting; from love in choosing us, unto love in glorifying us. —Puritan Richard Sibbes, Works 7:187

A ship that lies at anchor may be something tossed, but yet it still remains so fastened, that it cannot be carried away by wind or weather.

The greatest honour we can do unto God, is when we see nothing, but rather all contrary to that we look for, then to shut our eyes to inferior things below, and look altogether upon his all-sufficiency.

It is vain pretence to believe that God will give us heaven, and yet leave us to shift for ourselves in the way.

A child that believes his father will make him an heir, doubts not but he will provide him food and nourishment, and give him breeding suitable to his future condition.

All sin is a turning of the soul from God to some other seeming good, but this proceeds from a former turning of the soul from God by distrust.

All the glorious things that are spoken of trust are only made good by God in Christ, who as trusted, doth all for us.

The devil fears not us, but him whom we fly unto for succour; it is the ground we stand on secures us, not ourselves.

“But while we would try to put our rest and hope and comfort of security in our sanctification, God, in his persevering mercy, drives us again back to Christ, forcing us to pitch our rest on justification, not sanctification” - Richard Sibbes