Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThere is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
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When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
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You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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Those who are in a state of salvation are to attribute it to sovereign grace alone, and to give all the praise to Him who maketh them to differ from others.
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There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
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There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.
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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
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The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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