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Love is the sum of all virtue, and love disposes us to good.

Jonathan Edwards

Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
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Follow God Love Man Stand
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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Benefit Growth Knowledge Seek Yourself
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.
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Feeling Hell Myself Pain Thinking
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’
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God Mercy Stand Stay
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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Breathe Expression Life Natural Prayer
To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here.
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Better Enjoyment God Heaven Infinite
Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.
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Appearance Charm Holy Soul
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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Faith God Nature Power
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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Action Greatness Love Lying Oneself Practice Respect
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
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Family Religious
True weirdness from the world don’t consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.
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Better True Weird World
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
Resolved, that I will live so, as I shall wish I had done when I come to die.
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Death Live Myself
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
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Govern Image Influence Submission Temple Universe
A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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Faith God Right Sin

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