Richard Baxter Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

  Richard Baxter

  Dedication, Soul And Body, Holiness

  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.19

• The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.

  Richard Baxter

  Beautiful, Sight, Perfect

  Richard Baxter (1852). “The saints' everlasting rest; or; a treatise on the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven: By Richard Baxter. Abridged by Benjamin Fawcett”, p.7

• It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

  Richard Baxter

  Lying, Flames, Laughing

  Richard Baxter (1847). “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 ...”

• You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

  Richard Baxter

  Thinking, Doors, Feet

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.423

• Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

  Richard Baxter

  Soul, Misery, Gods Will

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of Richard Baxter: with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by William Orme”, p.169

• I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

  Richard Baxter

  Expectations, Heaven, Soul

  Richard BAXTER (1829). “Converse with God in Solitude, etc”, p.53

• Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

  Richard Baxter

  Teaching, Life Is Short, Soul

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.122

• Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Doors, Soul

  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.152

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