Quotes from Richard Baxter
Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.
- Richard Baxter
A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.
- Richard Baxter
Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
- Richard Baxter
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
- Richard Baxter
Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
- Richard Baxter
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
- Richard Baxter
Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk
- Richard Baxter
If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
- Richard Baxter
Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.
- Richard Baxter
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
Screw the truth into men's minds.
- Richard Baxter
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer.
- Richard Baxter