--- title: "4 Contradiction Quotes By Richard Baxter" description: "4 Contradiction quotes by Richard Baxter. Plus more from Richard Baxter and more Contradiction sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/richard-baxter-2985_christian_it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-chris_1321543.png" --- > [It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-christian-and-not-humble/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/richard-baxter-2985_christian_it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-chris_1321543.png) > [Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/do-not-mathematics-and-all-sciences-seem-full-of-contradictions-and/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/richard-baxter-2985_contradiction_do-not-mathematics-and-all-sciences-seem_3101347.png) > [The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/the-very-design-of-the-gospel-doth-tend-to-self-abasing-and-the-work/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4cf/richard-baxter-2985_christian_the-very-design-of-the-gospel-doth-tend_3150848.png) > [It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-sanctified-man-or-a-true-christian-and/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/77b/richard-baxter-2985_christian_it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-sanctified_3207135.png) ## Other authors on Contradiction - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-ayn-rand-15943.jpg) Ayn Rand 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/ayn-rand/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-swami-vivekananda-88348.jpg) Swami Vivekananda 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/swami-vivekananda/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-merton-90507.jpg) Thomas Merton 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/thomas-merton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-friedrich-nietzsche-36363.jpg) Friedrich Nietzsche 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/friedrich-nietzsche/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-david-hume-27582.jpg) David Hume 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/david-hume/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-thomas-paine-90547.jpg) Thomas Paine 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/thomas-paine/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-terence-mckenna-89395.jpg) Terence McKenna 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/terence-mckenna/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b016/author-mao-zedong-63096.jpg) Mao Zedong 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/mao-zedong/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erich-fromm-33632.jpg) Erich Fromm 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/erich-fromm/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-simone-weil-85539.jpg) Simone Weil 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/simone-weil/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/ralph-waldo-emerson/) ## More by Richard Baxter > [The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/the-more-perfect-the-sight-is-the-more-delightful-the-beautiful/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/most-christians-have-an-ungrounded-trust-in-christ-hoping-that-he/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/my-lord-i-have-nothing-to-do-in-this-world-but-to-seek-and-serve-thee/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/we-must-feel-toward-our-people-as-a-father-toward-his-children-yea/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/we-are-ignorant-of-things-necessary-because-we-learn-things/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/in-a-divine-commonwealth-holiness-must-have-the-principal-honor-and/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/god-takes-men-s-hearty-desires-and-will-instead-of-the-deed-where/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [Surely love is both work and wages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/surely-love-is-both-work-and-wages/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/naturally-men-are-prone-to-spin-themselves-a-web-of-opinions-out-of/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [“God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/god-never-saved-any-man-for-being-a-preacher-nor-because-he-was-an/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/a-man-pleaser-cannot-be-true-to-god-because-he-is-a-servant-to-the/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [“He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/he-is-not-drowning-his-sheep-when-he-washeth-them-nor-killing-them/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/get-masters-of-families-to-do-their-duty-and-they-will-not-only-spare/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/christ-leads-me-through-no-darker-rooms-than-he-went-through-before/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) > [Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/such-is-the-depth-of-the-christian-scriptures-that-even-if-i-were/) [Richard Baxter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-baxter/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/contradiction/richard-baxter/#itemlist", "name": "4 Contradiction Quotes By Richard Baxter", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Baxter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-christian-and-not-humble/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/richard-baxter-2985_christian_it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-chris_1321543.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/richard-baxter-2985_christian_it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-chris_1321543.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/139/richard-baxter-2985_christian_it-is-a-contradiction-to-be-a-true-chris_1321543.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.” — Richard Baxter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard Baxter" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-baxter/do-not-mathematics-and-all-sciences-seem-full-of-contradictions-and/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/richard-baxter-2985_contradiction_do-not-mathematics-and-all-sciences-seem_3101347.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/richard-baxter-2985_contradiction_do-not-mathematics-and-all-sciences-seem_3101347.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/35c/richard-baxter-2985_contradiction_do-not-mathematics-and-all-sciences-seem_3101347.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which…” — Richard Baxter", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. 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