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An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.

— Richard Baxter

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Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)

Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.

When the Son of God comes to rescue us and bring us back to God, He does not find in us the ability to believe.

The Saints' Everlasting Rest (1650)

I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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