Richard Baxter Quotes

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I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

Richard Baxter
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Richard Baxter
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

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
Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell...

Richard Baxter
'Tis hard preaching a stone into tears, or making a rock to tremble.

Richard Baxter
As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

Richard Baxter
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

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
Despair of ever being saved, "except thou be born again," or of seeing God "without holiness," or of having part in Christ except thou "love him above father, mother, or thy own life." This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.

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
Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.

Richard Baxter
We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness...Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.

Richard Baxter
We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Richard Baxter
Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of his own salvation? The reason that there are so few is, because they will not be saved upon God's terms.

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
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
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Richard Baxter
Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.

Richard Baxter
For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.

Richard Baxter
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man's mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.

Richard Baxter
Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

Richard Baxter
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

Richard Baxter
Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.

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