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If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

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Richard Baxter
Age: 76 †
Born: 1615
Born: November 12
Died: 1691
Died: December 8
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
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Rowton
Shropshire
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Love

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I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.
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Screw the truth into men's minds.
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You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.
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Despair of ever being saved, except thou be born again, or of seeing God without holiness, or of having part in Christ except thou love him above father, mother, or thy own life. This kind of despair is one of the first steps to heaven.
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I have pain there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
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When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.
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It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
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Keep your children as much as may be from ill company, especially of ungodly playfellows. It is one of the greatest dangers for the undoing of children in the world especially when they are sent to common schools: for there is scarce any of those schools so good, but hath many rude and ungodly ill-taught children in it.
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Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day today is his holiday
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I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion.
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Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
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Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
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Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
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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 utmost leisure, the most unwearied zeal, and talents greater than I have, I would be still daily making progress in discovering their treasures.
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Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
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Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.
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