The Saints' Everlasting Rest Quotes

“Surely love is both work and wages.”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . .
Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“[M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“We will "live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger. . . Latimer(69) [.]”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“When I compare my slow and unprofitable life with the frequent and wonderful mercies received, it shames me, it silences me, and leaves me inexcusable.”
― Richard Baxter, The Saint's Everlasting Rest

“How will it fill our souls with perpetual joy, to think that in the streams of this blood we have swum through the violence of the world, the snares of Satan, the seductions of flesh, the curse of the law, the wrath of an offended God, the accusations of a guilty conscience, and the vexing doubts and fears of an unbelieving heart, and are arrived safely at the presence of God!”
― Richard Baxter, Saints' Everlasting Rest

“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

“The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“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

“If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be had (312).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“There remaineth therefore a rest unto the people of God.(Hebrews 4:9)”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“Yonder is he whose blood redeemed us, whose Spirit cleansed us, whose law governed us; in whom we trusted, and he hath not deceived our trust; for whom we long waited, and now we see we have not waited in vain!”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“The name of this city much helpeth Jew and Gentile to see the state of peace, for this is called Jerusalem, and that in Canaan hath Christ destroyed: this name should clearly have taught bot h the Hebrews not to look and pray daily for to return to Canaan, and pseduo-catholics not to fight for special holiness there (658-9).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“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

“O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“But a tedious way to a grievous end(745);”
― Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest

“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