Richard Baxter Quotes About Preaching

Quotes about: Preaching

• I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

  Richard Baxter

  Prayer, Men, Dying

  Richard Baxter (1846). “Making Light of Christ and Salvation: Too Oft the Issue of Gospel Invitations: A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live: The Last Work of a Believer ... of the Shedding Abroad of God's Love ...”, p.41

• Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

  Richard Baxter

  Hate, Moving, Play

  Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181

• If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Common, Instruments

• Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

  Richard Baxter

  Prayer, People, Praying

  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.125

• 'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

  Richard Baxter

  Rocks, Tears, Stones

  Richard Baxter (1707). “The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter: In Four Volumes ; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author and of this Edition of His Practical Works”, p.731

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