Quotes About Richard Baxter

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

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).

M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

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

T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).

If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).

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

The ministry is another kind of business than too many excellent preachers take it to be.

In [Richard] Baxter's view, concern for outward possessions should sit lightly on the shoulders of his saints 'like a thin cloak which can be thrown off at any time.' But fate decreed that the cloak should become a shell as hard as steel.