Richard Baxter quotes

Richard Baxter was an English Puritan church leader, theologian, and prolific writer. His works on Christian living and church unity had a lasting influence on Protestant thought. He is remembered for his practical approach to faith and his efforts to promote religious tolerance. Here are 20 of his quotes:

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Richard Baxter

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

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

Richard Baxter

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

Richard Baxter

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

Richard Baxter

If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come."

Richard Baxter

Christ leads me through no darker rooms Than He went through before.

Richard Baxter

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

And therefore you must know that you can forfeit the grace and help of God by your willful sinning or negligence, though you cannot, without grace, turn to God. If you will not do what you can, it is just with God to deny you that grace by which you might do more.

Richard Baxter

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

Richard Baxter

You may know God, but not comprehend Him.

Richard Baxter

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Richard Baxter

All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.

Richard Baxter

As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest but in his love. In a word, all that are converted do esteem and love God better than all the world; and the heavenly felicity is dearer to them than their fleshly prosperity.

Richard Baxter

It pleased the great Creator of the world to make three sorts of living creatures. Angels he made pure spirits, without flesh, and therefore he made them only for heaven and not to dwell on earth. Beasts were made flesh, without immortal souls, and therefore they were made only for the earth and not for heaven: Man is of a middle nature between both, as partaking of both flesh and spirit, so is he made for earth, but as his passage or way to heaven, and not that this should be his home or happiness. The blessed state that man was made for was to behold the glorious majesty of the Lord and to praise him among his holy angels; and to love him, and to be filled with his love forever.

Richard Baxter

Keep up you conjugal love in constant heat and vigor.

Richard Baxter

Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.

Richard Baxter

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Richard Baxter