God is the same God in heaven as on earth, but I shall not be the same man.
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection but the preparation for it.
The joys of Heaven are of so pure and spiritual a nature, that the heart of the wicked cannot desire them.
I know that Christ is all in all and that it is His presence which makes Heaven to be heaven. But yet it much sweetens the thoughts of that place to me, that there are there such a multitude of my most dear and precious friends in Christ.
Doubtless, in Heaven we shall no more be oppressed with the power of our corruptions, nor vexed with their presence. No pride, passion, slothfulness, senselessness, shall enter with us; no strangeness to God, and the things of God; no coldness of affections, nor imperfection in our love; no uneven walking, nor grieving of the Spirit; no scandalous action, or unholy living. We shall rest from all these forever!
A good husband will either make a good wife or profitably endure a bad one.
In our first paradise in Eden there was one way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly paradise, there is one way to go in but not way to go out.
The differences among Christians, are nothing in comparison of the differences among heathens!
If it is an intolerable thing to cast into a fire for a year or a day, or an hour then what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more forever in the fires of Hell? What if you were to suffer the martyr Lawrence's death to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if you were to feed upon toads for a whole year? If you could not endure such things as these then how will you endure the eternal flames of Hell?
Men think God's laws are too many and too strict. Yet they make their own and are precise for keeping them.
Is it a small thing in your eyes to be loved by God to be the son, the spouse, the love, the delight of the King of glory?
Will it not awaken us to compassion, to look on a languishing man, and to think that within a few days his soul will be in Hell?
Be careful how you spend your time! Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
No man that has not the vitals of theology is capable of going beyond a fool in philosophy.
The longer your delay repentance, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, then how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
Sin dwells in Hell, and holiness in Heaven. Remember that every temptation is from the devil, to make you like himself. Remember when you sin, that you are learning and imitating of the devil and are so far like him. And the end of all, is that you may feel his pains. If Hellfire is not good, then sin is not good.
I remember no one sin that my conscience does so much accuse and judge me for, as for doing so little for the saving of souls, and not for dealing with the lost soul ones more fervently and earnestly for their conversion.
Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature. It is a contradiction in terms, to be a Christian, and not humble.
[Richard Baxter]
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