Quotes about Spirituality
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
— Richard Baxter
M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
— Richard Baxter
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
— Richard Baxter
Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
— Richard Baxter
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We
— Richard Baxter
The sanctification of your studies is when they are devoted to God and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
— Richard Baxter
O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]
— Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read. Let the Holy Scriptures ever have the pre-eminence; and next [to] them the solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the Scriptures.
— Richard Baxter
Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
— Richard Baxter
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied.
— Richard Baxter
He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).
— Richard Baxter
When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]
— Richard Baxter