“ 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
