All Richard Baxter Quotes
- 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
- Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the… Any
- The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend… Able
- Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God;… All
- This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of… All
- Screw the truth into men's minds. Inspirational
- If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion. Attended
- Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance. Door
- You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Any
- 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 bare… Bare
- 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… Calamity
- If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it… Couldst
- Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. Funny
- Do not waste your time on light, weak, milktoast ministries and books Book
- Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others Compassionate
- If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think… All