[O]your applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins (77)[.]

— Richard Baxter

[O]your English divines are sounder in it than any in the world, generally: I think because they are more practical, and have had more wounded, tender consciences under cure, and less empty speculation and dispute (336-7).

— Richard Baxter

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.

— Richard Baxter

Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisted our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).

— Richard Baxter

Sirs, so much as your hearts as is empty of Christ and heaven, let it be filled with shame and sorrow, and not with ease (483).

— Richard Baxter

So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The gift" (68).

— Richard Baxter

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayed till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

— Richard Baxter

The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.]

— Richard Baxter

The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you (15).

— Richard Baxter

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).

— Richard Baxter