Growth in Grace

God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things. —Richard Sibbes If believers decay in their first love, or in some other grace, yet another grace may grow and increase, such as humility, their brokenheartedness; they sometimes seem not to grow in the branches when they may grow at the root; upon a check grace breaks out more; as we say, after a hard winter there usually follows a glorious spring. —Richard Sibbes Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last. —Richard Sibbes The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes. —Thomas Watson