Quotes from Richard Baxter
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
- Richard Baxter
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?
- Richard Baxter
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
- Richard Baxter
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.
- Richard Baxter
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
- Richard Baxter
I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
- Richard Baxter
To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
- Richard Baxter
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.
- Richard Baxter
Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
- Richard Baxter
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
- Richard Baxter
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.
- Richard Baxter
If you do not see yourselves and all things as living, moving, and having their being in God, you see nothing, whatever you may think you see.
- Richard Baxter