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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThe godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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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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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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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world.
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The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
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Resolved, to study the Scriptures so steadily, constantly and frequently, as that I may find, and plainly perceive myself to grow in the knowledge of the same.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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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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We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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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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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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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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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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He who has Christ has all he needs and needs no more.
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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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He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.
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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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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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It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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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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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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