Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter
Richard Baxterwas an English Puritan church leader, poet, hymn-writer, theologian, and controversialist. Dean Stanley called him "the chief of English Protestant Schoolmen". After some false starts, he made his reputation by his ministry at Kidderminster, and at around the same time began a long and prolific career as theological writer. After the Restoration he refused preferment, while retaining a non-separatist Presbyterian approach, and became one of the most influential leaders of the Nonconformists, spending time in prison. His views on...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth12 November 1615
This is the sanctification of your studies: when they are devoted to God, and when He is the end, the object, and the life of them all.
We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.
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 to the Creator.
Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.
We planned this performance for families to go to in the afternoon, prior to the Super Bowl. So the day isn't all sports.
The Dallas Children's Theatre have put together an incredible play based on the funny novel.
It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.
I remember myself, that when I was young, I had sometime the company of one ancient godly minister, who was of weaker parts than many others, but yet did profit me more than most; because he would never in prayer or conference speak of God, or the life to come, but with such marvelous seriousness and reverence, as if he had seen the majesty and glory which he talked of.
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
Nothing below heaven is worth setting our hearts upon.
Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer...