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]
Richard Sibbes: Citáty o bohu
Richard Sibbes byl anglický teolog. Objevte zajímavé citáty na téma bůh.
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]
„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]