Quotes by : Richard Baxter

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having....

Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do love....

[I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and....

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

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope,....

If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not....

Woe to the soul which God rejoiceth to punish! . . . . Is it not a terrible thing to a wretched soul,....

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by....

Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that thinketh....

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner....