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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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Do not mathematics and all sciences seem full of contradictions and impossibilities to the ignorant, which are all resolved and cleared to those that understand them?
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It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.
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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 must carry on our work as much as preaching he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
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Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
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The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
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God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
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Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
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This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
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Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.
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Is it but right that our hearts should be on God, when the heart of God is so much on us.
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Our very business is to teach the great lesson of self-denial and humility to our people, and how unfit is it then that we should be proud ourselves!
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Death is half disarmed when the pleasures and interests of the flesh are first denied.
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For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and his sacrifice and satisfaction is sufficient for all, and the fruits of it are offered to one as well as another, but it is true that it was never the intent of his mind to pardon and save any that would not by faith and repentance be converted.
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Hell is paved with infants skulls.
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I have pain there is no arguing against sense, but I have peace, I have peace.
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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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Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.
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You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
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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.
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