"I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.












The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

More Richard Baxter quotes
"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 ...
"As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).
"[T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).
"The sum is this, —As thou makest conscience of praying daily, so do thou of the acting of thy graces in meditation; and more especially in meditating ...
"Either paganish unbelief of the truth of that eternal blessedness, and of the truth of the Scripture which doth promise it to us; or, at least, a doub...
"Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279).
"Why dost thou not see that on earth they desires fly from thee? Art thou a not as a child that thinketh to travel to the sun, when he seeth it rising ...
"O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and acquaintance are dead, in whom we disce...
"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 th...
"The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).