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.
JONATHAN EDWARDSThey 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
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The enjoyment of God is the only happiness with which our souls can be satisfied.
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Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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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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I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.
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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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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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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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By Christ’s purchasing redemption, two things are intended: his satisfaction and his merit; the one pays our debt, and so satisfies; the other procures our title, and so merits. The satisfaction of Christ is to free us from misery; the merit of Christ is to purchase happiness for us.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of 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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To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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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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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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Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers.
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Resolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
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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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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God’s help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ’s sake.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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