Quotes from Richard Baxter

I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

Good ends will not justify evil actions. What

Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

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?

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

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 them all.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

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.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

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?

Screw the truth into men's minds.

A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.

Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell.

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

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.

Surely love is both work and wages.