Richard Baxter — The Saints' Everlasting Rest

If men and angels should study to speak the blessedness of that state in one word, what could they say beyond this, that it is the nearest enjoyment of God?

He that takes any thing else for his happiness, is out of the way the first step.

Never expect to have love and joy move, when faith stands still, which must lead the way.

As the fire doth mount upwards, and the needle that is touched with the loadstone still turneth to the north, so the converted soul is inclined to God. Nothing else can satisfy him, nor can he find any content and rest b…

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

All are making haste towards hell, until by conviction, Christ brings them to a halt, and then, by conversion, turns their hearts and lives sincerely to himself.