Richard Baxter Thinking Quotations

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.

What we most value, we shall think no pains too great to gain.

It is true, that men may have Christ whenever they are willing to comply with His terms. But if you are not willing now, how can you think you shall be willing hereafter?

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew; he hath now access to your fancy to stir up lustful thoughts and desires, so that when you should think of your calling, of your God, or of your soul, your thoughts will be worse than swinish, upon the filth that is not fit to be named. If the devil here get in a foot, he will not easily be got out.

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.