Originál: (en) What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look only upon matter of grievance—to think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget a hundred blessings.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 276.
Richard Sibbes citáty
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Richard Sibbes
Datum narození: 1577
Datum úmrtí: 1635
Richard Sibbes byl anglikánský puritánský teolog a kazatel. Pro styl a charakter svých kázání byl nazýván „nebeský doktor Sibbes“. Wikipedia
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Citáty Richard Sibbes
„Zima připravuje zemi na jaro, a stejně tak soužení, jsou-li posvěcena, připravují duši na slávu.“
Originál: (en) The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 21.
Originál: (en) Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away Paradise. Therefore in all temptations let us consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 293.
Originál: (en) 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, that they may not love the world; that they may be crucified to it, the world must be crucified to them.
Zdroj: [Sibbes, Richard, Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations, https://books.google.cz/books?id=Dq9JAAAAYAAJ&dq, J. Buckland, London, 1775, 137, 71, angličtina]
Originál: (en) As men cherish young plants at first and fence them about with hedges to keep them from hurt, but when they are grown they remove these things and leave them to the wind and weather, so God sustains His children at first with props of inward comforts, but afterwards He ex poses them to storms and winds because they are better able to bear them. Therefore let no man think himself the better because he is more free from troubles than others; it is because God sees him not fit to bear greater.
Zdroj: The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, s. 228.
Originál: (en) When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer.
Zdroj: [Sibbes, Richard, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The complete works of Richard Sibbes, D.D, https://books.google.cz/books?id=b6UGCwAAQBAJ&pg, James Nichol, Edinburgh, 1864, VII, 604, 208, angličtina]
Originál: (en) Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it; for all is theirs to help them towards heaven; therefore if poverty be good they shall have it; if disgrace or crosses be good they shall have them; for all is ours to promote our greatest prosperity.
Zdroj: Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations, s. 10.
„Chudoba a soužení odnímají palivo, které podporuje pýchu.“
Originál: (en) Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 16.
„Smrt je jen ponurým vrátným, který nás pouští do nádherného paláce.“
Originál: (en) Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
Zdroj: The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, s. 70.
Originál: (en) 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.
Zdroj: The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, s. 89.
„Je to zhoubný přídavek, přidávat něco ke Kristu.“
Originál: (en) It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 47.
„Ti, kdo chtějí být šťastní, musí nejprve hledět, aby byli svatí.“
Originál: (en) Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
Zdroj: [Sibbes, Richard, Alexander Balloch Grosart, The complete works of Richard Sibbes, D.D, https://books.google.cz/books?id=b6UGCwAAQBAJ&pg, James Nichol, Edinburgh, 1862, III, 543, 469, angličtina]
„V Kristu je více milosti, než je v nás hříchu.“
Originál: (en) There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Zdroj: [Sibbes, Richard, Rev. Terry Kulakowski, The Bruised Reed, https://books.google.cz/books?id=b6UGCwAAQBAJ&pg, Lulu.com, 2015, 140, 16, 161898053X, angličtina]
„Bůh dovede pochytit smysl i ze zmatené modlitby.“
Originál: (en) God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 218.
„Časy jsou zlé, Bůh je dobrý.“
Originál: (en) Times are bad, God is good.
Zdroj: [Thomas, I. D. E, The Golden Treasury of Puritan Quotations, The Banner of Truth Trust, Edinburgh, 2007, 5, 321, 314, 0851512496, angličtina]
