Richard Baxter Quotes About Heaven

• It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when none in heaven or earth can help them but God, and he shall rejoice over them in their calamity

  →

  Richard Baxter

  Lying   Flames   Laughing  

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”

  3118

• Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

  →

  Richard Baxter

  Heart  

  "The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven".

  4800

• The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.

  →

  Richard Baxter

  Richard Baxter (1852). “The saints' everlasting rest; or; a treatise on the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven: By Richard Baxter. Abridged by Benjamin Fawcett”, p.7

  3324

• Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

  →

  Richard Baxter

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1817). “The saints everlasting rest: or, a treatise of the blessed state of the saints, in their enjoyment of God in glory”, p.86

  4644

• I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

  →

  Richard Baxter

  Soul  

  Richard BAXTER (1829). “Converse with God in Solitude, etc”, p.53

  5127

You May Also Like:

George Gillespie

Thomas Chalmers

Thomas Watson

B. B. Warfield

Thomas Brooks

Richard Sibbes

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Arthur W. Pink