Richard Baxter Quotes about Heart

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Heart, Doors, Suffering

Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1853). “The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven”, p.167

My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

Richard Baxter

Heart, Waiting, Grace

Richard Baxter (1817). “The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised”, p.993

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

Richard Baxter

Heart, Heaven, Settings

"The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven".

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

Richard Baxter

Heart, Should

Richard Baxter (1841). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest: And, A Call to the Unconverted”, p.248

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

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

Richard Baxter

Christian, Heart, World

Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.531

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

Richard Baxter

Religious, Heart, Mean

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

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

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

Religious, Mistake, Heart

"The Saint's Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Heaven".

Richard Baxter Quotes about Heart

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