Richard Baxter Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

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

  Richard Baxter

  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

• 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

  Men, Sick, Suffering

  Richard Baxter (1654). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest”

• If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

  Richard Baxter

  Years, Fire, Flames

• A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

  Richard Baxter

  Writing, Suffering, Littles

  Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1824). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest: Or, a Treatise on the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven : to which are Added Dying Thoughts”, p.347

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