Quotes about Spirituality
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
If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
— Richard Baxter
O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
— Richard Baxter
Desire a thousand times more to be godly, than to seem so.
— Richard Baxter
But a deep walk with God does not come effortlessly. If it did, many more people would have one. First, you must decide you're unwilling to remain where you are. Second, you must be prepared to pay a price. Will you rise earlier so you can spend unhurried tome with Him? Will you forgo comforts and pleasures so you can focus on your walk with Him?
— Richard Blackaby
Does Christianity merely mean we must forfeit our Sunday mornings to church attendance, or does being a Christian noticeably improve our lives?
— Richard Blackaby
When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.
— Richard Blackaby
Anyone who enters into an intimate relationship with God can see God do exceptional things through his or her life.
— Richard Blackaby