Keep up your conjugal love in a constant heat and vigor. Love will suppress wrath: you cannot have a bitter mind upon small provocations, against those that you dearly love.
- Richard Baxter
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We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of... See that your chief study be about heart, that there God’s image may be planted, and his interest... For it was thy sin, and the sin of all the world, that lay upon our Redeemer, and... If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would... This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might... Holiness is nothing else but the habitual and predominant devotion and dedication of soul, and body, and life,... Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy scriptures ever have the pre-eminence, and,... Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh,... Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig,... Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is... A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for...
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