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• Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, Temptation

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• 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.

  Richard Baxter

  Moving, Thinking, Environmental

  Richard Baxter, James M. Houston (2004). “Watch Your Walk”, p.138, David C Cook

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

  Richard Baxter

  Unity, Liberty, Charity

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.8

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• Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world; especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, School, Rude

  Richard Baxter (1996). “The Christian directory”, Soli Deo Gloria Ministries

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• Do not waste your time on light, weak, milk­toast ministries and books

  Richard Baxter

  Book, Light, Ministry

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• It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Humble, Contradiction

  "The Reformed Pastor: Shewing the Nature of the Pastoral Work".

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

  Richard Baxter

  Pain, Thinking, Gains

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• The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Humble, Humility

  Richard Baxter (1838). “The Practical Works of Richard Baxter: With a Preface, Giving Some Account of the Author, and of this Edition of His Practical Works; an Essay on His Genius, Works and Times; and a Portrait : in Four Volumes”, p.405

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• It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.

  Richard Baxter

  Wise, Book, Reading

  Richard Baxter (1825). “A Christian Directory, Or, A Body of Practical Divinity and Cases of Conscience: Christian politics, (or duties to our rulers and neighbours”, p.584

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• Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.

  Richard Baxter

  Godly, Cheerful, Mirth

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter, with a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.24

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• We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

  Richard Baxter

  Study, Live Well, Wells

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.59

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• Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

  Richard Baxter

  Overcoming, Surrender, Lord

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

  Richard Baxter

  Say Anything, Ifs

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• We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

  Richard Baxter

  Ignorant, Unnecessary, Christianity

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The Practical Works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author, and a Critical Examination of His Writings”, p.167

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• You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

  Richard Baxter

  Reformation

  Richard Baxter, William Brown (M.D.), Daniel Wilson (1829). “The Reformed Pastor by R. Baxter”, p.160

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• Screw the truth into men's minds.

  Richard Baxter

  Men, Mind, Screws

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• See that your chief study be about heart, that there God's image may be planted, and his interest advanced, and the interest of the world and flesh subdued, and the love of every sin cast out, and the love of holiness succeed; and that you content not yourselves with seeming to do good in outward acts, when you are bad yourselves, and strangers to the great internal duties. The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart.

  Richard Baxter

  Christian, Heart, World

  Richard Baxter, William Orme (1830). “The practical works of the Rev. Richard Baxter: with a life of the author, and a critical examination of his writings”, p.531

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• While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

  Richard Baxter

  Doubt

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• That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

  Richard Baxter

  Yesterday, Light, Too Late

  Richard Baxter (1837). “Now or never: the holy, serious, diligent believer justified, excited & directed ...”, p.5

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• To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, Men, People

  Richard Baxter, John Wesley (1848). “The Saints' Everlasting Rest; Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory”, p.61

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• If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

  Richard Baxter

  Inspirational Life, Long, May

  "Hymns of the church militant". Book by Anna Bartlett Warner, 1858.

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• I have pain; there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.

  Richard Baxter

  Pain

  "Select Practical Writings of Richard Baxter: With a Life of the Author".

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• Hell is paved with infants skulls.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Skulls, Hell

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 362-364, 1922.

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• I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.

  Richard Baxter

  Self, Grace, Denial

  Richard Baxter (1830). “The practical works of ... Richard Baxter, with a life of the author and a critical examination of his writings by W. Orme”, p.3

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• Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Men, Broken

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