"When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374)..."
- Richard Baxter
"Seriousness is the very thing wherein consisteth our sincerity. If thou art not serious, thou art not a Christian (279)."
"The falseness of your own hearts, if you look not to them, may undo you(15)."
"[O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]"
"So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68)."
"Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!"
"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..."
"As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99)."
"What if you had seen haven open as Stephen did, and all the saints there triumphing in glory, and enjoying the end of their labours and sufferings, what a life would you lead after such a sight as thi..."
"What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had ..."