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… — 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 life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms. — 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
