“ If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585). Richard Baxter
“ Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is eit… Richard Baxter
“ We may reconcile ourselves to the world at our peril, but it will never reconcile itself to us. . . . This unwillingness to die, doth actually impeach us of high treason against the Lord : is it not a… Richard Baxter
“ As we should not own our duties further than somewhat of Christ is in them, so should we no further our own hearts ; and as we should delight in the creatures no further than they have reference to Ch… Richard Baxter
“ Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279). Richard Baxter
“ When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374)… Richard Baxter
“ To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please. Richard Baxter
“ Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related… Richard Baxter
“ That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389). Richard Baxter
“ [O]ur 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… Richard Baxter
“ Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.] Richard Baxter
“ Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)? Richard Baxter
“ What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had… Richard Baxter
“ Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271). Richard Baxter
“ What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, what a life would you lead after such a sight as thi… Richard Baxter
“ Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do love the way to joy, or will endure the pains by which it is obtained; they will take the next that co… Richard Baxter
“ The door of the visible church is incomparably wider than the door of heaven (522)[.] Richard Baxter
“ Anger is the rising up of the heart in passionate displacency against an apprehended evil, which would cross or hinder us of some desired good. Richard Baxter
“ Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556). Richard Baxter
