Quotes from Richard Baxter

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

In my library I have profitably and pleasantly dwelt among the shining lights, with which the learned, wise, and holy men of all ages have illuminated the world.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

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

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

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.

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

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

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 shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

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.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.

All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.

We are members of the world and of the church, and must labour to do good to many; and therefore we have greater work to do on earth, than merely securing our own salvation.

Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

Ye holy angels bright, Who stand before God's throne And dwell in glorious light, Praise ye the Lord each one. Assist our song, or else the theme Too high doth seem for mortal tongue.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.