Pithy Gems from Richard Baxter

(You will find it helpful to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)

You cannot have God as your Savior, unless you will have Him as your Sovereign.

Will you waste your life chasing shadows, while your eternity hangs in the balance?

Life is short,
death is certain,
judgment is final!
Repent while the door of mercy is open!

To trifle with your soul is the greatest folly.
Eternal joy or eternal misery are before you.

To delay repentance, is to gamble with your soul on the verge of eternity.

The heart that refuses to bow to God now, will be crushed under His justice in eternity.

The sinner's refusal of grace is the highest madness, for it exchanges Heaven for Hell.

The door of mercy is open now, but it will not always remain so--enter while you can.

Sin deceives, but it will not excuse.
Sin entices, but it will destroy.

If you love your sin more than your soul, then you shall have your sin--and lose your soul.

Mercy pleads with you now, but justice will have the last word.

The cost of following Christ is nothing, compared to the cost of rejecting Him.

If you love your sin, then you do not love God.
And if you do not love God, then you are lost forever.

To live without Christ, is to live without hope.
To die without Christ, is to die without mercy.

You may escape the world's condemnation,
but you cannot escape the wrath of God without Christ.

To reject Christ, is to reject the only hope for your soul.

He who will not repent now, will wish that he had in eternity.

Your life is but a vapor, and your soul is everlasting.
Why will you trade eternity, for the passing pleasures of sin?

Time is short, and eternity is long.
To neglect your soul's salvation, is the greatest of follies.

The devil offers sin as sweet, but it leaves bitterness and damnation in its wake.

What will it avail you to have the world--and yet lose your soul, which is more precious than the whole world?

You may ignore God now, but you will not be able to ignore Him when you stand before Him in judgment.

To sin against God is madness, but to remain in sin is to choose your own eternal ruin.

The unconverted think they are free, but they are slaves to sin and the devil.

The unrepentant man is like a man asleep in a burning house--unaware of the danger until it's too late.

The world offers a temporary pleasure, but the gospel offers eternal joy in the presence of God.