Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It is not a terrible thing to a wretched soul, when it shall lie roaring perpetually in the flames of hell, and the God of mercy himself shall laugh at them; when...God shall mock them instead of relieving them; when… — 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
