Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
JONATHAN EDWARDSA 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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The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit 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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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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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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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
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Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God’s.
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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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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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One requirement to be used as a leader in a movement of revival: They must have the Spirit of God upon them.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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