Vikram Kumar

“A little spiritual light is of strength enough to answer strong objections of flesh and blood, and to look through all earthly allurements and opposing hindrances, presenting them as far inferior to those heavenly objects it eyeth.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“The whole chain [of God's love] so holds, that all the creatures in heaven and earth cannot break a link of it. Whom he calls he will justify and glorify. Therefore never doubt of continuance, for it holds firm on God's part, not thine. God embraces us in the arms of his everlasting love, not that we embraced him first. When the child is safe from falling, it is from the mother's holding the child, and not from the child's holding the mother. So it is God's holding of us, knowing of us, embracing of us, and justifying of us that maketh the state firm, and not ours ; for ours is but a reflection and result of his, which is unvariable. (A Heavenly Conference, p. 439)”
― Richard Sibbes, The Works of Richard Sibbes Volume 6

“All light that is not spiritual, because it wanteth the strength of sanctifying grace, yieldeth to every little temptation, especially when it is fitted and suited to personal inclinations. This is the reason why Christians that have light little for quantity, but yet heavenly for quality, hold out, when men of larger apprehensions sink.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed

“people will frame a divinity to themselves, pleasing to the flesh suitable to their own ends, which, being vain in the substance, will prove likewise vain in the fruit, and as a building upon the sand.”
― Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed