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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

Jonathan Edwards

The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Business Chief God Life Seek
From love arises hatred of those things which are contrary to what we love, or which oppose and thwart us in those things that we delight in.
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Delight Hate Love Rise
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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Cheap Faith Ourselves People Practice Reality
The end of the creation is that the creation might glorify God. Now what is glorifying God, but a rejoicing at that glory he has displayed?
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Creation Display End Glorify Himself
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
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Expectation Forever God Himself
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
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
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God Ground Preparation Trust Way Yourself
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
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God Himself People Prayer
I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Myself Reason
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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Better End Possible Respect Time
The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.
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Creature God Happiness
There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!
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Agreement Love People Time Universe
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Afraid Heart Need Trust
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
JONATHAN EDWARDS

Action God Influence Life Spirit

Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.

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