Richard Baxter Quotes

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• 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?

  Richard Baxter

  Tree, Delay, Able

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.11

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

  Richard Baxter

  Perfection, Preparation, This Life

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.254

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• Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.

  Richard Baxter

  Blessing, Dying, Bed

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• Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

  Richard Baxter

  Humble, Faults, Compassionate

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.403

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

  Richard Baxter

  Rooms, Christ, Leading Me

  Richard Baxter (1689). “Poetical fragments: heart-imployment with God and it self. The concordant discord of a broken-healed heart. Sorrowing-rejoycing, fearing-hoping, dying-living. Written partly for near friends in a sickness, and other deep affliction”, p.62

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

  Richard Baxter

  Motivational, Brain, Study

  Richard Baxter (2014). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.

  Richard Baxter

  Dedication, Soul And Body, Holiness

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.19

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• Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Doors, Suffering

  Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1853). “The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven”, p.167

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

  Richard Baxter

  Prayer, Men, Dying

  Richard Baxter (1846). “Making Light of Christ and Salvation: Too Oft the Issue of Gospel Invitations: A Call to the Unconverted to Turn and Live: The Last Work of a Believer ... of the Shedding Abroad of God's Love ...”, p.41

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• A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Sick, Suffering

  Richard Baxter (1654). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest”

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• Make careful choice of the books which you read:
  let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence.

  Richard Baxter

  Book, Choices, Scripture

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.150

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

  Richard Baxter

  Maintenance, Fuel, Siege

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.255

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• Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.

  Richard Baxter

  Hate, Moving, Play

  Richard Baxter (1862). “The Reformed Pastor”, p.181

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

  Richard Baxter

  Time, Be Careful, Careful

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• 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. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.

  Richard Baxter

  Purpose, Littles, Study

  Richard BAXTER, Rev. William BROWN (M.D., Son of John Brown of Haddington.), Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.) (1829). “The Reformed Pastor ... Revised and Abridged by the Rev. William Brown ... With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. Daniel Wilson. [With a Portrait.]”, p.24

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• Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.

  Richard Baxter

  Study, Sermons

  Richard Baxter (1829). “The Reformed Pastor by R. Baxter”, p.102

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• Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

  Richard Baxter

  Holiday, Today, Tomorrow

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• Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.

  Richard Baxter

  Use, World, Sin

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: with a Life of the Author and a Critical Examination of His Writings by William Orme”, p.549

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• We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them. They should see that we care for no outward thing, neither liberty, nor honor, nor life, in comparison to their salvation... When the people see that you truly love them, they will hear anything from you...Oh therefore, see that you feel a tender love for your people in your hearts, and let them perceive it in your speech and conduct. Let them see that you spend and are spent for their sakes.

  Richard Baxter

  Mother, Children, Father

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• My Lord, I have nothing to do in this World, but to seek and serve thee; I have nothing to do with a Heart and its affections, but to breathe after thee. I have nothing to do with my Tongue and Pen, but to speak to thee, and for thee, and to publish thy Glory and thy Will. What have I to do with all my Reputation, and Interest in my Friends, but to increase thy Church, and propagate thy holy Truth and Service? What have I to do with my remaining Time, even these last and languishing hours, but to look up unto thee, and wait for thy Grace, and thy Salvation?

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Waiting, Grace

  Richard Baxter (1817). “The saints' everlasting rest; The divine life; and Dying thoughts; also, A call to the unconverted; and Now or never. Carefully revised”, p.993

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• What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

  Richard Baxter

  Pain, Thinking, Gains

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• Prayer is the breath of the new creature.

  Richard Baxter

  Prayer, Creatures, Breaths

  Richard Baxter (1847). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter; with a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works, and Times ...”, p.24

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• Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and, next to them, those solid, lively, heavenly treatises which best expound and apply the scriptures, and next, credible histories, especially of the Church... but take heed of false teachers who would corrupt your understandings.

  Richard Baxter

  Teacher, Book, Choices

  "A Christian Directory: Or, a Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases of Conscience Directing". Book by Richard Baxter, 1673.

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

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Heaven, Settings

  "The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven".

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

  Richard Baxter

  Overcoming, Surrender, Lord

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