If a man that is desperately sick today, did believe

he should arise sound the next morning; or a man

today, in despicable poverty, had assurance that he

should tomorrow arise a prince; would they be afraid

to go to bed?-Richard Baxter (1615-1691) (In Isaac David Thomas' _The Golden Treasury Of Puritan Quotations_ [1975], "Death")

Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the

godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of

believers. -Richard Baxter (1615-1691) (In Martin H. Manser's _The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations_ [2001], "Laughter")

Gambling is incompatible with the Christian view of God, with the Christian responsibility to love our fellowmen, with the Christian understanding of stewardship and with a Christian view of the responsible use of time and energy.- John V. Dahms

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

Feminism: The most organized form of nagging. ~ Peter Zohrab