And the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

— Richard Baxter

Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displaced against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good.

— Richard Baxter

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

— Richard Baxter

As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Christ and eternity, so should we no further approve of our own hearts (483).

— Richard Baxter

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).

— Richard Baxter

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyed of theme from thence to the affections (571).

— Richard Baxter

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?

— Richard Baxter

Either paganism unbelief of the truth of that eternal blessedness, and of the truth of the Scripture which doth promise it to us; or, at least, a doubting of our own interest; or most usually most sensible of the latter, and therefore complain most against it, yet I am apt to suspect the former to be the main, radical master-sin, and of greatest force in this business. Oh! If we did but verily believe that the promise of the glory is the word of God, and that God doth truly mean as he speaks, and is fully resolved to make it good; if we did verily believe that there is, indeed, such blessedness prepared for believers as the scripture mentioned ; sure we should be as impatient of living as we are now fearful of dying, and should think every day a year till our last day should come. We should as hardly refrain from laying violent hands on ourselves, or from the neglecting of the means of our health and life, as we do now from over-much carefulness and seeking of life by unlawful means. . . . Is it possible that we can truly believe that death will remove us for misery to such glory, and yet be both to die(465-6)? It appears we are little weary of sinning, when we are so unwilling to be freed by dying (467).

— Richard Baxter

Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill (376)[.]

— Richard Baxter

He may be a Christian by common profession; but, in a saving sense, no man is a Christian, in whose soul anything hath a greater and higher interest than God the Father, and the Mediator (352).

— Richard Baxter