Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
JONATHAN EDWARDSNature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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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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A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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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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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts; the sight of the deep-blue sky and the clustering stars above seems to impart a quiet to the mind.
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Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
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We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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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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Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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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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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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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn’t do, if it were the last hour of my life.
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The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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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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Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does not slumber; the pit is prepared, the fire is made ready, the furnace is now hot, ready to receive them; the flames do now rage and glow.
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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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Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
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Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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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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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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