Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Rowton
Shropshire
Kind
Born
Thou
Love
Father
Saved
Life
Mother
Despair
Part
Except
Ever
Steps
Firsts
Seeing
Without
Heaven
First
Christ
Holiness

More quotes by Richard Baxter

Image
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 know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.
Richard Baxter
Image
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
Richard Baxter
Image
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
Richard Baxter
Image
Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial force it to answer the interrogatories put to it set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thy soul on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.
Richard Baxter
Image
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books
Richard Baxter
Image
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
Richard Baxter
Image
It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
Richard Baxter
Image
You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.
Richard Baxter
Image
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
Richard Baxter
Image
Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
Richard Baxter
Image
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
Richard Baxter
Image
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
Richard Baxter
Image
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
Richard Baxter
Image
I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.
Richard Baxter
Image
A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.
Richard Baxter
Image
Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!
Richard Baxter
Image
For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.
Richard Baxter
Image
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
Richard Baxter
Image
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter
Image
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.
Richard Baxter