The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
JONATHAN EDWARDSGrace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand years hence.
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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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We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
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The seeking of the kingdom of God is the chief business of the Christian life.
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If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil’s reach as humility.
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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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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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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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I know not how to express better, what my sins appear to me to be, than by heaping infinite upon infinite, and multiplying infinite by infinite. When I look into my heart and take a view of my wickedness, it looks like an abyss infinitely deeper than hell.
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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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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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By the grace of God we will never pluck unripe fruit. We will never press people to decision, because we’ll lead them to damnation and not salvation.
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Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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