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: Dítě
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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) 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.