The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Richard Baxter
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Surely love is both work and wages.”
“The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374).”
“The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15).”
“[M]editation is the life of of most other duties; and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).”
“[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 be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).”
“We will "live eternally with Peter, Paul, Austin, Chrysostom, Jerome, Wickliffe, Luther, Zuinglius, Calvin, Beza, Bullinger. . . Latimer(69) [.]”
“Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).”
“Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?”
“Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).”
“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 had (312).”
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