If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour,… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
When we speak to drunkards, worldlings, or any ignorant, unconverted men, we disgrace them as in that condition to the utmost, 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
