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Resolved, to ask myself at the end of every day, week, month and year, wherein I could possibly in any respect have done better.

Jonathan Edwards

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
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider… abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire.
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Burn Fire God Hell Hold Worth Yourself
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Cure Imagination Pain Sick
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
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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Escape Hell Himself Man Natural
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
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Delight Humility World
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
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God Ourselves Power Step
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
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Absurd Greatness Proud Religious
Nothing is more certain than that there must be an unmade and unlimited being.
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Human Limitation
Wicked people will on the day of judgment see all there is to see of Jesus Christ, except His beauty and loveliness
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Day Himself Judgement People
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
Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.
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Exercise Faith God Man Trust
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 have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell.
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Hell Reason Wonder Yourself
Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.
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Faith Ingredient Love Practice Soul
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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Gratitude Heaven Love Misery View

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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