What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.
- Richard Sibbes
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When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by... Whatsoever is good for God’s children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to... In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our... There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Measure not God’s love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest... Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers,... The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither... God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for... The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the... The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards... Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It’s a working of the heart until... It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other... It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than... Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
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