Education Quotes by Richard Baxter

8 Education quotes by Richard Baxter

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Richard Baxter’s eight statements spotlight the moral dimension of schooling, urging readers to consider character as much as knowledge. His historic voice adds depth to contemporary conversations about purpose-driven education.

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“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if…

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Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if…

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You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

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Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

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“Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if…

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See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest…

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Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

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We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

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Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and…

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My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart…

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We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours.…

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We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

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In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.

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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…

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Surely love is both work and wages.

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Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be…

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“God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man,…

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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…

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“He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that…

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Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further…

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Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to…

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