Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest Quotes

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other laws than his, if it were at thy choice, thou art not his disciple (331).

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

The sweetest poison doth often bring the surest death (645).

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?

The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!

O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).

If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).

[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).