Richard Baxter: Quotes about God

Richard Baxter was English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer. Explore interesting quotes on god.

Richard Baxter: 28 quotes8 likes

“When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.”

The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650), "The Nature of the Saints' Rest"

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

A Sermon Preached at the Funeral of Mr. John Corbet

“As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.”

Richard Baxter book A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Sermon 1

“And therefore you must know that you can forfeit the grace and help of God by your willful sinning or negligence, though you cannot, without grace, turn to God. If you will not do what you can, it is just with God to deny you that grace by which you might do more.”

Richard Baxter book A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live

A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live, Preface.