Richard Baxter Quotes About Duty

Quotes about: Duty

• Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.

  Richard Baxter

  Hurt, Prayer, Sacrifice

  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.224

• A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational, Men, Wind

  Richard Baxter (1825). “A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian ethics, (or private duties)”, p.558

• Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.

  Richard Baxter

  Promise, Here And There, May

• 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

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