You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
JONATHAN EDWARDSSpiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.
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Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
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Family education and order are some of the chief means of grace; if these are duly maintained, all the means of grace are likely to prosper and become effectual.
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Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due
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If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Resolved, never to lose one moment of time; but improve it the most profitable way I possibly can.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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