“As the spring follows winter” by Richard Sibbes

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night, but as the spring follows winter.

For the winter prepares the earth for the spring: so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”

–Richard Sibbes, “Divine Meditations and Holy Contemplations,” The Works of Richard Sibbes, vol. 7 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1638/2001), 7: 189.