Richard Baxter

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

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

"This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it."

"If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them."

"Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life, and all that we have to God."

"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!"

"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?"

"Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own."

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

"No man that has not the vitals of theology is capable of going beyond a fool in philosophy."

"Screw the truth into men’s minds."

"A good husband will either make a good wife, or easily and profitably endure a bad one."

"Even the stoutest sinners will hear us on their death-bed, though they scorned us before."

"You shall find this to be God’s usual course; not to give His children the taste of His delights till they begin to perspire in seeking after them."

"Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before."

"Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of."

"Till you can rest in God’s will you will never have rest."

"Of all preaching in the world, that speaks not stark lies, I hate that preaching which tendeth to make the hearers laugh, or to move their mind with tickling levity."

"Take heed, therefore, to yourselves first, that you be that which you persuade your hearers to be."

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

"A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him."

"Self is the most treacherous enemy, and the most insinuating deceiver in the world."

"Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence."

"Desire a thousand times more to be godly, than to seem so."

"Before and after you read the Scripture, pray earnestly that the Spirit who wrote it may interpret it for you, keep you from unbelief and error, and lead you into the truth."