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The Saints' Everlasting Rest QUOTES

The Saints' Everlasting Rest QUOTES

1 " The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

2 " Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that thinketh to travel to the sun, when he seeth it rising or setting, as it were close to the heart ; but as he traveleth toward it, it seems to go from him ; and when he hath long wearied himself, it is as far off as ever, for the thing he seeketh is in another world? Even such hath been thy labour in seeking for so holy, so pure, so peaceable as society, as might afford thee a contented settlement here. Those that have gone as far as America for satisfaction, have confessed themselves unsatisfied still (643). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

3 " When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.] "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

4 " Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

5 " Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

6 " what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)! "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

7 " Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

8 " The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

9 " As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

10 " He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul any thing hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

11 " What interest hath this empty world in me? and what is there in it that may seem so lovely, as to entice my desires and delight from thee, or make me loth to come away? When I look about me with a deliberate, undeceived eye, methinks this world is a howling wilderness, and most of the inhabitants are untamed, hideous monsters. All its beauty I can wink into blackness, and all its mirth I can think into sadness ; I can drown all its pleasures in a few penitent tears, and the wind of a sigh will scatter them away (650). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

12 " We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a choosing of earth before him ; and taking these present things for our happiness, and consequently asking them our very God (469)? "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

13 " Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

14 " If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

15 " He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.] "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

16 " [O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.] "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

17 " If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

18 " Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity to the sense, and setteth it again upon the throne of the soul. When reason is silent, it is usually subject; for when it is asleep the senses domineer. . . . Reason is at the strongest when it is most in action. Now, meditation produceth reason into act (573). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

19 " Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest

20 " Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383). "

― Richard Baxter , The Saints' Everlasting Rest