We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter Copy Share
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 Copy Share
God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
“God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
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… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
“He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share
