Top 100 Richard Baxter Quotes
#1. Richard Baxter: Ye saints, who toil below, Adore your heavenly King, And onward as ye go Some joyful anthem sing. Take what He gives, And praise Him still Through good and ill Who ever lives.
J.I. Packer
#2. Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.
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#3. We will live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger ... Latimer(69) [.]
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#4. He that believeth that he believe, believeth himself and not God (333)[.]
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#5. 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?
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#7. Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
Richard Widmark
#8. If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.
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#9. Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday
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#10. I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
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#13. O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.
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#14. An aching tooth is better out than in.
To lose a rotting member is a gain.
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#15. 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 (331).
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#17. Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.
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#18. Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
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#19. Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.
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#20. Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.
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#21. I would desire every divine to beware that he tell not the unsanctified, that whoever hath the least degree of love to God for himself, and not as a means to carnal ends, shall certainly be saved ; for he would certainly deceive many thousand miserable souls that should persuade them of this (670).
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#22. Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
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#23. Of all preaching in the world, (that speaks not stark lies,) I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity, and affect them as stage-players use to do, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence of the name of God.
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#24. Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).
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#25. 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.
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#26. Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!
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#27. We shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness ... Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and thou shalt be near, and as near as thou canst well desire. Thou shalt dwell in his family.
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#28. If and worms'-meat must have such respect, think, then, what reverence thou shouldst approach thy Maker (569).
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#29. As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).
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#30. Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
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#31. 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.
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#32. It is past all question, and agreed on by all sides, that no religion will save a man who is not serious, sincere, and diligent in it. If thou be of the truest religion in the world, and are not true thyself to that religion, the religion is good, but it is none of thine.
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#34. Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).
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#35. I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.
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#36. He is not drowning His sheep when He washeth them, nor killing them when He is shearing them. But by this He showeth that they are His own: and the new-shorn sheep do most visibly bear His name or mark; when it is almost worn out and scarce discernible on them that have the longest fleece.
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#37. 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) [.]
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#38. Content not yourselves with being in a state of grace, but be also careful that your graces are kept in vigorous and lively exercise, and that you preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others. If
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#39. Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
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#40. You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
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#41. Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
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#42. If God be not enough for you, you will never have enough. Turn to him more, and know him better, if you would have a satisfied mind.
-Directions Against Sinful Desires and Discontent.
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#43. [M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).
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#44. O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).
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#45. Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.
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#46. Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
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#47. And the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).
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#48. 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.
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#49. Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
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#50. That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).
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#51. In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.
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#52. Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
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#53. To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
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#54. Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.
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#55. Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).
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#56. Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
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#57. 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).
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#58. 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.
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#59. O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
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#60. Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
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#61. Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
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#63. Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
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#64. It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
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#65. If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).
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#66. If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?
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#67. Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
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#68. To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
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#69. Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.
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#70. [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
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#71. Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
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#72. The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.
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#73. [W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
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#74. The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?
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#75. [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).
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#76. Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.
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#77. Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
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#78. We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.
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#79. In a divine commonwealth holiness must have the principal honor and encouragement, and a great difference be made between the precious and the vile.
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#80. A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer ...
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#81. Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
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#82. The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).
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#83. It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
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#84. Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).
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#85. What a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
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#86. The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.
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#87. If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
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#88. If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe he should arise sound the next morning; or a man today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he should tomorrow arise a prince: would they be afraid to go to bed ... ?
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#89. 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.
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#90. Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?
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#91. 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.
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#92. [T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).
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#93. I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
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#94. You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
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#95. The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.
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#97. I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
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#98. Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.
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#99. Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).
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#100. If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).
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