All Richard Baxter Quotes
- 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… Candle
- I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace. Funny
- The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world… All
- Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot… All
- This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it. Inspirational
- When Christ comes with regenerating grace, he finds no man sitting still, but all posting to eternal ruin, and making haste toward hell; till, by… All
- For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for… All
- To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation. Children
- Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of… Any
- Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing… Any
- 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… Affect
- Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before. Christ
- And though it be their sin and vanity that is the cause [of lust], it is nevertheless your sin to be the unnecessary occasion…You must… Among
- I did nothing that I might not have done better. Better
- You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy… Access
- It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. Book
- Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they… Christ
- The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the… Appetite
- 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… Apply
- A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course. Change