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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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