Richard Baxter Quotes - Page 2

Once more consider, there is nothing, but heaven, worth setting our hearts upon.

Screw the truth into men's minds.

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

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 live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

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 of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.

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.

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 you see.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

Hell is paved with infants skulls.

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

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, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.