Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
JONATHAN EDWARDSIntend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
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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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Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
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Teachers and learners are correlates, one of which was never intended to be without the other.
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The material universe exists only in the mind.
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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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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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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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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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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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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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