Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).
– Richard Baxter
Related Quotes:
- Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. – Sylvain Reynard
- As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99). – Richard Baxter
- The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374). – Richard Baxter
- Conviction says, ‘My behavior was wrong.’ Satan, on the other hand, floods our hearts with shame. Shame says, ‘There is something wrong with me. – Dale Forehand
- The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15). – Richard Baxter
- I do not worship a DEAD and buried Christ at Calvary. I worship a ressurected and LIVING Christ in Heaven! Jesus Christ is alive. – Israelmore Ayivor
- I am an empty mind with an empty body and with an empty soul. I am neither haunting for anything nor something. – Santosh Kalwar
- To empty your mind, walk in the empty streets! Full mind is a tired mind; empty mind is a lively mind! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Wherever you see an empty life, or an empty page or an empty mind, add something good to it! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When an empty person sits on an empty chair, the chair will still remain empty! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I just thought I was empty and now I’m being filled…and I just wanted to keep being filled. – Laura Hillenbrand
- Work filled with inspiration is worship. A heart filled with courage is unbreakable. A life filled with gratitude is fulfilled. – GG Renee Hill
- Shame internalized can lead to agony. Whereas shame let out can lead to freedom, or at least a funny story, which is a sort of freedom too. – Jon Ronson
- Is heaven a place in the sky?Heaven is what we wear in our heart and in our mind. ( -œIs heaven a place in the sky?- ) – Erik Pevernagie
- Dear sirs, The cold war isn’t over. When national borders fail, the epidermis is the last line of defense. We are counting on you.Sincerely,Patriot – Benson Bruno
- please don’t cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean. – JRR Tolkien
- The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity. – Criss Jami
- If our hearts are at war, we would not be able to experience Heaven in our hearts – Tahira Amir Khan
- I [will] not go to heaven because I am a preacher. I am going to heaven entirely on the merit of the work of Christ. – Billy Graham
- Pride filled him. He’d put that soft look in her eye, the purr in her voice, and given her loose limbed ease. – Avery Flynn
- There is no shame in ignorance before a higher power but there is shame in arrogance. – IanAnthony Finnimore
- No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind – Karl Marx
- We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others. – Bren Brown
- There is no shame in losing to the sword of the Prince. There is only shame in choosing not to follow Him. – Chuck Black
- Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you. – Erica Goros
- Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don’t believe your shame. – Scott Stabile
- Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.- And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet. – Jean Plaidy
- Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it. – John Grisham
- To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. – Richard Baxter
- I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men. – Richard Baxter
- Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279). – Richard Baxter
- what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)! – Richard Baxter
- [O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.] – Richard Baxter
- If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556). – Richard Baxter
- O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648). – Richard Baxter
- Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)! – Richard Baxter
- Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556). – Richard Baxter
- Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good. – Richard Baxter
- [T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317). – Richard Baxter