Richard Baxter Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

  Richard Baxter

  Rooms, Christ, Leading Me

  Richard Baxter (1689). “Poetical fragments: heart-imployment with God and it self. The concordant discord of a broken-healed heart. Sorrowing-rejoycing, fearing-hoping, dying-living. Written partly for near friends in a sickness, and other deep affliction”, p.62

• We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Children, Father

• I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.

  Richard Baxter

  Faith, Men, Essentials

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

• When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and then, by conversion, turn first their hearts, and then their lives, sincerely to himself.

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Men, Sitting Still

  Richard Baxter (1838). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works : an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times : and a Portrait”, p.13

• Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Men, Broken

• Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, Temptation

• Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Father, Heaven

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1817). “The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory”, p.86

• It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Thinking, May

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