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They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due

Jonathan Edwards

Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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God Live Myself Resolution Willing
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Death Live Myself
The godly are designed for unknown and inconceivable happiness.
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Design God Happiness Unknown
Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.
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Goodness Love Ourselves Virtue
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
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Act Creation Discover God Gratitude Necessary Perfection Study
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
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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Beginning God Himself Holy Love True
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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Afraid Life Myself
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason
The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Enjoyment God Happiness Ourselves Satisfaction Soul
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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Desire Easy Expectation Live World
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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Alone Grace Himself Praise Salvation State
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Breathe Expression Life Natural Prayer
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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Devil Humility Person Reach
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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Divine Knowledge Possession Treasure Yourself

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