Quotes by : Richard Baxter

Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would....

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

What interest hath this empty world in me? and what is there in it that may seem so lovely, as to entice....

If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other....

[T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning and we have need to lay all our batteries against....

Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly....

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not....

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of....

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....