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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

Jonathan Edwards

Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
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Happiness Jealous People Satisfaction Spirit
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
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Contribute Necessary Salvation Yourself
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
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God Live Prayer World
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
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Break God Healing Himself Misery Peace Wound
Nature is God’s greatest evangelist.
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God Greatness Nature
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
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Afraid Life Myself
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.
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Action God Influence Life Spirit
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Resolved, never to speak evil of anyone, so that it shall tend to his dishonor, more or less, upon no account except for some real good.
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Evil Exception Goodness Reality Talk
Christ is the true light of the world; it is through him alone that true wisdom is imparted to the mind.
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Alone Mindset Wisdom World
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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God Ourselves Power Step
Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
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Heaven Spirit Wait World
We must view humility as one of the most essential things that characterizes true Christianity.
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Character Essential Humility Religious
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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Beautiful Creature Degree Delight God True
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.
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Agreement God Ideas Truth

Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

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Resolved, to examine carefully, and constantly, what that one thing in me is, which causes me in the least to doubt the love of God; and to direct all my forces against it.

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