J. Sidlow Baxter Quotes

“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

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

— J. Sidlow Baxter

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

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“Fundamentally, our Lord's message was Himself. He did not come merely to preach a Gospel; He himself is that Gospel. He did not come merely to give bread; He said, "I am the bread." He did not come merely to shed light; He said, "I am the light." He did not come merely to show the door; He said, "I am the door." He did not come merely to name a shepherd; He said, "I am the shepherd." He did not come merely to point the way; He said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life."”

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“Bethlehem and Golgotha, the Manger and the Cross, the birth and the death, must always be seen together.”

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“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

“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

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

— J. Sidlow Baxter

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

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.”

— J. Sidlow Baxter

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

“He is indeed the 'Lamb.' There is nothing harsh or haughty or retaliative about Him.”

— J. Sidlow Baxter

“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

“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

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

— J. Sidlow Baxter