J Sidlow Baxter Quotes

#1. Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#2. As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?

J. Sidlow Baxter

#3. What we need now is the greatest generation of young adults in the history of the Church. We need your whole heart and soul. In other words, it's time to raise the bar not only for missionaries but also for returned missionaries and for your entire generation.

M. Russell Ballard

#4. If the Bible is uniquely and inerrantly inspired, then we have certainty; we may know real truth about God

J. Sidlow Baxter

#5. Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#6. Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#7. I represent the mixed race community, which I think gets left out a lot. I always describe myself as being mixed race.

Melanie Brown

#8. True consecration to Christ simplifies life, for it leaves the management to Him.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#9. He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#10. If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

W. Somerset Maugham

#11. Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an experience.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#12. Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#13. What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#14. Where judgment has wit to express it, there's the best orator.

William Penn

#15. Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#16. You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or outguess it,

J.D. Robb

#17. If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism - one world religion with one god made out of many.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#18. I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#19. Patrick had left behind some writings, and one of his most famous works was something many of us learned in school called "Saint Patrick's Breastplate," a kind of a cross between a hymn and a poem.

Frank Delaney

#20. I have said it many a time, and am surer of it than ever, that the life and death issue of Christianity is the inspiration and authority of the Bible.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#21. Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

Hans Rookmaaker