[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). Richard Baxter
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  1. The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff. - Criss Jami

  2. What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. - Don DeLillo

  3. Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love. - Alice Walker

  4. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. - Ayn Rand

  5. There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation. - Kirk Cameron

More Quotes By Richard Baxter
  1. Nothing can be rightly known, if God be not known; nor is any study well managed, nor to any great purpose, if God is not studied. We know little of the creature, till we know it as it stands related to the Creator: single letters,...

  2. Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. Let Scripture be first and most in your hearts and hands and other books be used as subservient to it. While reading ask yourself: 1. Could I spend...

  3. To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.

  4. O what a blessed day that will be when I shall. .. stand on the shore and look back on the raging seas I have safely passed; when I shall review my pains and sorrows, my fears and tears, and possess the glory which was...

  5. I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

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