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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
Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
— Richard Baxter
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
— Richard Baxter
Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
— Richard Baxter
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
— Richard Baxter
What a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
— 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
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
— Richard Baxter
Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).
— Richard Baxter
As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
— Richard Baxter
That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).
— Richard Baxter
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Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
— Richard Baxter
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
— Richard Baxter
Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
— Richard Baxter
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
— Richard Baxter
Do you think none shall be saved but puritans(89)?
— Richard Baxter
If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.
— Richard Baxter
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[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).
— Richard Baxter
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
— Richard Baxter
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
— Richard Baxter
O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.
— Richard Baxter
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
— Richard Baxter
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
— Richard Baxter
I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace.
— Richard Baxter
But a tedious way to a grievous end(745);
— Richard Baxter
Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
— Richard Baxter
I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.
— Richard Baxter
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
— Richard Baxter
While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.
— Richard Baxter
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
— Richard Baxter
Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.
— Richard Baxter
Hell is paved with infants skulls.
— Richard Baxter
Screw the truth into men's minds.
— Richard Baxter
An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.
— Richard Baxter
If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
— Richard Baxter
Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).
— Richard Baxter
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[M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
— Richard Baxter
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
— Richard Baxter
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
— Richard Baxter
When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
— Richard Baxter
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
— Richard Baxter
Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
— Richard Baxter
The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.
— Richard Baxter
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
— Richard Baxter
We will live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger ... Latimer(69) [.]
— Richard Baxter
Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
— Richard Baxter
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
— Richard Baxter
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Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
— Richard Widmark
Surely love is both work and wages.
— 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
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.
— Richard Baxter
You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.
— Richard Baxter
The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).
— Richard Baxter
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
— Richard Baxter
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
— Richard Baxter
'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.
— Richard Baxter
Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.
— Richard Baxter
Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?
— Richard Baxter
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
— Richard Baxter
Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.
— Richard Baxter
The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not
— Richard Baxter
O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
— Richard Baxter
I did nothing that I might not have done better.
— Richard Baxter
Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
— Richard Baxter
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
— Richard Baxter
He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).
— Richard Baxter
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[O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).
— Richard Baxter
Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday
— Richard Baxter
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
— Richard Baxter
Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.
— Richard Baxter
Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).
— Richard Baxter
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
— Richard Baxter
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[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).
— Richard Baxter
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.
— Richard Baxter
Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.
— Richard Baxter
The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?
— Richard Baxter
Are you not in a race; and is not the prize the crown of glory; and should you then sit still or take your ease? (281)
— Richard Baxter
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
— Richard Baxter
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
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
— Richard Baxter
It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
— Richard Baxter
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
— Richard Baxter
If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.
— Richard Baxter
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
— Richard Baxter
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
— Richard Baxter
Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
— Richard Baxter
If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?
— Richard Baxter
What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.
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