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“If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Say Anything
“This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Perfection #Preparation #This Life
“Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Heart #Doors #Suffering
“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

#Tree #Able #Delay
“I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Prayer #Men #Dying
“Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others”
-- Richard Baxter

#Humble #Faults #Compassionate
“Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?”
-- Richard Baxter

#Ignorant #Contradiction #Mathematics
“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!”
-- Richard Baxter

#Pain #Blessed #Sea
“To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Wise #Library #Helping
“Get masters of families to do their duty, and they will not only spare you a great deal of labor, but will much further the success of your labors. You are not like to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation. Some little religion there may be, here and there; but while it is confined to single persons, and is not promoted in families, it will not prosper, nor promise much future increase.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Promise #May #Littles
“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

#Dedication #Soul #Body
“Dangers bring fears and fears more dangers bring.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Fear #Danger
“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.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Christian #Blessing #Eden
“You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.”
-- Richard Baxter
“I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Self #Grace #Denial
“Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Soul #Misery #Gods Will
“I tell you again, God hath not ordinarily decreed the end without the means; and if you will neglect the means of salvation, it is a certain mark that God hath not decreed you to salvation. But you shall find that He hath left you no excuse, because He hath not thus predestined you.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Mean #Election #No Excuses
“In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Forever #Blame #Hell
“Do not waste your time on light, weak, milkÂtoast ministries and books”
-- Richard Baxter

#Book #Light #Waste
“Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Rooms #Christ #Leading Me
“Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!”
-- Richard Baxter

#Humility #Self #People
“We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary”
-- Richard Baxter

#Ignorant #Unnecessary #Christianity
“Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Overcoming #Surrender #Lord
“Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it to set the qualifications of the saints on one side, and the qualifications of thyself on the other side, and then judge what resemblance there is between them.... Yet be sure thou judge by a true touchstone, and mistake not the Scripture description of a saint, that thou neither acquit nor condemn thyself by mistake.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Mistake #Heart #Judging
“A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Pain #Life Is #Holy
“The churchyard is the market place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Vanity #World #True Value
“For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Sacrifice #Mind #World
“Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday”
-- Richard Baxter

#Holiday #Today #Tomorrow
“Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Prayer #People #Praying
“Hell is paved with infants skulls.”
-- Richard Baxter

#Religious #Skulls #Hell

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