# “As the spring follows winter” by Richard Sibbes

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“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](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848718039?tag=toletaupanre-20),”
[_The Works of Richard Sibbes, vol. 7_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848718039?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1638/2001), 7: 189.

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