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Top 100 Richard Baxter Quotes (2025 Update)

Richard Baxter Quote: “Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “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. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “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; and esteeming, and loving, and serving, and seeking Him, before all the pleasures and prosperity of the flesh.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “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 Quote: “Prayer is the breath of the new creature.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...”
Richard Baxter Quote: “This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Take heed to yourselves, lest you perish while you call upon others to take heed of perishing, and lest you famish yourselves while you prepare their food.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Tomorrow is always the sluggard’s working day; today is his holiday.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Screw the truth into men’s minds.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Alas! can we think that the reformation is wrought, when we cast out a few ceremonies, and changed some vestures, and gestures, and forms! Oh no, sirs’! it is the converting and saving of souls that is our business. That is the chiefest part of reformation, that doth most good, and tendeth most to the salvation of the people.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Speak to your people as to men that must be awakened, either here or in hell...”
Richard Baxter Quote: “I did nothing that I might not have done better.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “An ounce of mirth is worth a pound of sorrow.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “If family religion were duly attended to and properly discharged, I think the preaching of the Word would not be the common instrument of conversion.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “I have pain; but I have peace, I have peace.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Despair of ever being saved, “except thou be born again,” or of seeing God “without holiness,” or of having part in Christ except thou “love him above father, mother, or thy own life.” This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “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 Quote: “A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Is it not enough that all the world is against us, but we must also be against one another? O happy days of persecution, which drove us together in love, whom the sunshine of liberty and prosperity crumbles into dust by our contentions!”
Richard Baxter Quote: “It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Hell is paved with infants skulls.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “A man pleaser cannot be true to God, because he is a servant to the enemies of his service; the wind of a man’s mouth will drive him about as the chaff, from any duty, and to any sin.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “I like to hear a man dwell much on the same essentials of Christianity. For we have but one God, and one Christ, and one faith to preach; and I will not preach another Gospel to please men with variety, as if our Saviour and our Gospel had grown stale.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.”
Richard Baxter Quote: “In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.”
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