Originál: (en) When Christ comes with regenerating, saving grace, he finds no man sitting sitll, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste towards hell; till, by conviction, he first brings them to a stand, and by conversion, turn first their hearts and then their lives sincerely to himself.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 37-38.
Richard Baxter: Citáty o srdci
Richard Baxter byl anglický puritánský církevní vůdce, básník. Objevte zajímavé citáty na téma srdce.
Originál: (en) We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the tenderest 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 unfeignedly 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.
Zdroj: The Reformed Pastor. S. 181.
„Mají-li být zatvrzelá srdce oblomena, musí to být ne hlazením, ale údery.“
Originál: (en) If a hardened heart be to be broken, it is not stroking, but striking that must do it.
Zdroj: The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, Svazek XVI. S. 154.
Originál: (en) See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.
Zdroj: The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme, Svazek II. S. 531.