204 Quotes by Richard Baxter

Will any man that hath not lost his senses, now stand caviling, and quarrelling, that so few should be saved, instead of making sure of his own salvation? The reason that there are so few is, because they will not be saved upon God’s terms.

The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other’s griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.

Lord, will you send me with such an unbelieving heart to persuade others to believe? Must I daily plead with sinners about everlasting life and everlasting death, and have no more belief or feeling of these weighty things myself? Oh send me not naked and unprovided to the work; but, as you command me to do it, furnish me with a spirit suitable thereto.” Prayer.

Heaven is won or lost on earth; the possession is there, but the preparation is here.

It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.