Let the eternal God be the portion of my soul;

let heaven be my inheritance and hope;

let Christ be my Head and my promise of security;

let faith be my wisdom,

and love my very heart and will.

and patient persevering obedience be my life;

 

and then I can spare the wisdom of the world,

because I can spare the trifles that it seeks.

 

Richard Baxter, 1615-1691, English Puritan

 

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Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, 

where moth and rust destroy 

    and where thieves break in and steal, 

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, 

where neither moth nor rust destroys 

    and where thieves do not break in and steal.