By Richard Baxter
Do it speedily, without delay. If you be not willing to turn to-day, you are not willing to do it at all.
Turn and live is as certain a truth as turn or die. God was not bound to provide us a Saviour, nor open to us a door of hope, nor call us to repent and turn when once we had cast ourselves away by sin, but he hath freely done it to magnify his mercy.
The greatest hope that the devil hath is by keeping you blind-fold and ignorant of your state.
You might have had Christ, and would not. Remember, when you have lost it, that you might have had eternal life as well as others, and would not.
There is never a soul in heaven that is sorry that they are converted.
Nothing in this world deserves once to be named in comparison with matters of eternity.
This is not a change in one, or two, or twenty points, but in the whole soul, and in the very end and bent of the conversation.
It is not God that is cruel to you; it is you that are cruel to yourselves.
God is not a man, that thou shouldst dally and play with him.
Conversion is another kind of work than most are aware of; it is not a small matter to bring an earthly mind to heaven, and to shew man the amiable excellencies of God, till he be taken up in such love to him, that can never be quenched.
An unknown good moves not to desire or endeavor.
If you knew you were out of the way to heaven, durst you sleep another night in the state you are in?
God taketh pleasure in men’s conversion and salvation; but not in their death or damnation.
When we have obtained the haven, we have done sailing.
There is mercy in God, there is sufficiency in the satisfaction of Christ, the promise is free, and full, and universal.
When once you be converted, the Holy Ghost will give you another nature and inclination.
A converted man is illuminated to discern the loveliness of God; and his heart is set more upon it than any thing in this world.
The Lord seeth whither thou art going better than thou dost, which makes him call after thee, ‘Turn, turn.’ He seeth what will become of thee if thou turn not. He thinketh with himself, ‘Ah this poor sinner will cast himself into endless torments if he do not turn.’
There is more joy in a day of holiness than in a whole life of sinful pleasures.
It is a certain truth that no man can be willing of any evil as evil, but only as it hath some appearance of good; much less can any man be willing to be eternally tormented.
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