Richard Baxter Quotes
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
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 it when it is a tree?
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.
Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary
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 mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.
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 deed instead of the will.
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.
Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?
Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.
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.
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.
Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.
