Richard Baxter Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
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!
O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
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).
That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
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.
[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).
The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
Words and actions are transient things, and being once past, are nothing; but the effect of them on an immortal soul may be endless.
I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.
The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).
If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).
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.
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
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.
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.
[M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]
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.
O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
[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).
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
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?
The ministerial work must be managed purely for God and the salvation of the people, and not for any private ends of our own.
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.
We will live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger ... Latimer(69) [.]
Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
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)
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).
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.
[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).
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.
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?