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
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More Quotes By Richard Baxter
  1. 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: single letters,...

  2. Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it. While reading ask yourself: 1. Could I spend...

  3. To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

  4. 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 pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was...

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

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