Nothing below Heaven is worth setting our hearts upon!
Keep up a humble sense of your own faults and that will make you compassionate to others.
If you have anything to be proud of, remember that it is not your own, but has been given or lent to you by God, who especially hates pride!
Unity in things necessary, Liberty in things unnecessary, and Charity in all things.
Too many preachers are earthly, who seem to be heavenly. Too many mind the things below, while they preach the things above. Too many idolize the world, while they call men to condemn it.
There is no separating sin and Hell.
Speak to your people as to men who must be awakened either here or in Hell! We must screw the truth into men's minds!
Does any man live more to himself, or less to God than the proud man? Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people and how unfit is it then, that we should be proud ourselves! We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.
What we most value we shall think no pains too great to gain.
Self is the most treacherous enemy, and the most insinuating deceiver in the world! Of all other vices it is both the hardest to find out, and the hardest to cure.
Be of good cheer, Christian, the time is near, when God and you shall be as near as you can desire. You shall dwell in His family! You shall then have joy without sorrow, and rest without weariness!
Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else from early boyhood to decrepit old age, with the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures!
The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?
Do not over-value the manner of your own worship. Do not over-vilify other men's worship of a different mode.
Paganism attributes the creation and the sustaining of the world to blind chance.
To love a small sin, is a great sin.
Oh, what silly heads and hearts, have all those who, standing on the verge of an endless world, can think they have any time to spare.
[Richard Baxter]
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