It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
The Word of God (The Holy Bible) says that knowledge puffs up, which leads to pride. And pride leads to arrogance, but do not mistake confidence for pride, there is a difference. For pride is unmerited confidence in yourself, and true confidence is trusting in the One (Jesus) who did it all. Have a blessed day!!!
We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation… When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you…Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church… but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
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 (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
The Word of God (The Holy Bible) says that we are not going to be perfect until we are in the very presence of Jesus. That while we are here on this earth that perfection is not obtainable. That we are sinners until the day of our death. But the Bible also says that we should be holy as God is holy. So we should always be trying to be the best version of who the LORD made us to be. Have a blessed day!!!
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 (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.
Richard Baxter (Puritan Pastor, 1615 – 1691)