A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we… — 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
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious. — 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
“It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard… — 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
