Quotes from Richard Baxter

When I let my heart grow cold, my preaching is cold; and when it is confused, my preaching is confused; and so I can often observe also in the best of my hearers, that when I have grown cold in preaching, they have grown cold too; and the next prayers which I have heard from them have been too like my preaching. We are the nurses of Christ's little ones. If

The devil hath his gunpowder plots, and mines, which may blow you up before you are aware. Not

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

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

Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied.

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.

Convince them what a contradiction it is to be a Christian and yet to refuse to learn. For what is a Christian but a disciple of Christ, and how can he be his disciple if he refuses to be taught by him? He who refuses to be taught by his ministers refuses to be taught by Christ. He will not come down from heaven again to teach them by his own mouth, but he has appointed his ministers to keep school and to teach those under him.

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

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

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.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.