Sidlow Baxter Quotes

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

#6. 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

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

#8. Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose, in order to empower those who are around us.

David Walker

#9. You can only acquire really useful general ideas by first acquiring particular ideas ... You cannot make bricks without straw.

Arnold Bennett

#10. 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

#11. I've gone from being one of the youngest governors to now the longest consecutive serving governor in the country.

John Engler

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

#15. When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Suze Orman

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

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

J. Sidlow Baxter

#18. The worst thing for a singer/songwriter is to run out of songs.

Michael Kiwanuka

#19. 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

#20. Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love ... or ourselves.

Christopher Dutton

#21. John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.

John Taliaferro