Quotes from Richard Baxter

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

O what a blessed day that will be when I shall . . . stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was the end of all!

To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

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.

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.

Surely love is both work and wages.

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.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.