“ So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68). Richard Baxter
“ The physical vanity of the diet-and-exercise obsessive is recast as the pursuit of a kind of ritual purity, hedged about with taboos and guilt trips and mysticized by yoga. Ross Douthat
“ The way of painful duty is the way of fullest comfort. Christ carrieth all our comforts in his hand : if we are out of that way where Christ is to be met, we are out of the way where comfort is to be… Richard Baxter
“ [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot b… Richard Baxter
“ As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99). Richard Baxter
“ 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 discerned no signs of sanctification, and never did onc… 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
“ Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.] 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
“ 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
