Godliness is more easily feigned in words than in actions.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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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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Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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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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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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We cannot believe that the church of God is already possessed of all that light which God intends to give it; nor that all Satan’s lurking places have already been found out.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
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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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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature’s holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun’s beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun’s brightness, though immensely less in degree.
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The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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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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Trust in God and ye need not fear.
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